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empty now but just minutes from now a

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nasa plane will be pulling in with the

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one-year crew member scott kelly making

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his return home to the united states

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welcome from nasa's johnson space center

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thanks for staying up late tonight with

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us i'm dan hewitt

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again scott kelly just minutes away now

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from a landing in

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houston just a little over 24 hours

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since touching down in wintry kazakhstan

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after a historic 340 days in space

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a lot of folks are going to be gathering

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out at ellington to welcome scott home

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among them various dignitaries from the

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white house including dr jill biden the

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second lady of the united states john

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holdren the white house science advisor

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a number of nasa management folks

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including charles bolden the nasa

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administrator ellen ochoa the center

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director and of course scott's friends

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and family he's going to be looking

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forward to seeing his loved ones his

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children and

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his twin brother mark kelly and his wife

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gabby giffords all gathering out there

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at ellington awaiting his return right

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now that return is scheduled to come

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just about 10 minutes from now at 1 20

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and will be eagerly awaiting we'll be

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giving you a live view of the landing

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the taxi through the runway and the

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pull-in to the hangar as we will wait

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for scott to walk down the stairs just a

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few minutes later

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scott kelly of course launched just

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about one year ago from kazakhstan on

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march 27 2015

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when he would begin a historic stay on

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board the international space station

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that launch coming from baikonur when he

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was on board a soyuz spacecraft along

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with mikael korninko who spent the

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entire year with scott they launched

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with gennady padalka the all-time record

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holder for time and space among all of

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humanity

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launching flawlessly and arriving just

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six hours later they made their way in

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and were welcomed by the current

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expedition 43 crew on board uh terry

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verts samantha chris ferretti and anton

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who are already several months into

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their mission but for scott kelly and

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mikael korninko the first steps into the

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space station and what would be their

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home for the next 340 days

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and of course all of that came to a

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culmination just last night as scott

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kelly mikhail kornienko and sergey

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volkov said farewell to their crew

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members and for scott and mikhail said

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farewell to their home in space for the

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last year they said their final goodbyes

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and made their way into their soyuz

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spacecraft a different one than they

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arrived in this one actually arrived to

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the station in september when sergey

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volkov flew with two visiting crew

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members

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to deliver the taxi up there and bring

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these crew members back home

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the hatches were closed

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and then after that a series of leak

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checks just to make sure the vehicle was

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to make the trip home everything going

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flawlessly yesterday evening here on the

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station you can see the crew members who

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are still on board as expedition 47 tim

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copra tim peake and yuri malenchenko

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were going to continue all the science

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several months once the hatch was closed

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on the soyuz side and on the station

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side series of leak checks were

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completed and then everything was set up

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for undocking that undocking took place

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snail-like rate of only one-tenth of a

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meter per second and with that undocking

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but the end the beginning of a trip home

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again all of this happened just

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yesterday march 1st so we're a little

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over 24 hours from all of these events

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as we get ready to welcome scott home to

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his first steps back on u.s soil

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that undocking coming successfully this

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a view from the soyuz as it looked down

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at the entire station structure and the

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earth orbiting beneath it it was only

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about three and a half hours from that

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undocking though until it was time for

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the capsule to return home

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the soyuz spacecraft does so under a

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large parachute

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setting up for an eventual touchdown in

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the kozak step and the vast expanses of

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the kazakh deserts as you can see cloudy

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search and recovery forces the various

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helicopters the nasa

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the russian personnel able to track the

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capsule all the way down and get the

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crew members out safely and quickly and

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this was again the first fresh of breath

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air for two of these crew members scott

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kelly and mikhail kononenko in over 340

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as they conducted that historic year

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onboard the station sergey volkov was

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the first out of the soyuz capsule

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and he was the commander of the vehicle

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last night for all of its events volkov

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a veteran space flier who was making his

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third flight on board the international

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well in excess of 500 days on his

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all-time space flight resume for scott

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kelly and mikhail kononenko is 340 days

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and all told they spent

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5440 orbits around our planet now when

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you rack up the mileage on that that's

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143 million miles coincidentally about

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the same distance you would have to

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travel if you were on a mission to mars

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and this one-year mission the next step

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and the the international space

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station's use as a platform for

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preparing us for that journey to mars

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again this view from yesterday it was

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evening here in houston when the crew

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touched down but morning out in

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kazakhstan about 12 hours ahead of us

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here in houston kelly giving a lot of

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thumbs up there on the ground reporting

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he was doing well

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and now we're getting reports the plane

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about to land at ellington so we will

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cut out live and there it is the nasa

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so on board this plane scott kelly is

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joined by a crew of nasa personnel who

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made the trip out to kazakhstan to

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bring him home as quickly as

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expeditiously as possible

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this done on the nasa plane to get these

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crew members hopefully within 24 hours

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or so after their landing so they can

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medical tests various data takes all of

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responsible for doing all of the science

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around their missions of course many of

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liking themselves to guinea pigs at

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because he's not in space anymore

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doesn't mean the science stops so a lot

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of work still to go for him but scott

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and again at this point scott's friends

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family invited guests and various

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they'll wait for the plane to

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at which point before they can say hello

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to scott there's actually a bit of

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scott and everybody on board will be

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going through the exact same u.s customs

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and border protection processing as any

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united states so believe it or not a

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trip into outer space treated much like

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so for scott kelly that'll be the first

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order of business before he's able to

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get off the plane and you can see all of

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the various friends family nasa

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dignitaries and those from the white

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second lady dr jill biden to welcome

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here now the nasa plane pulling into the

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hangar out at ellington

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it's made the trip in

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under 24 hours now stopping twice for

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weather and crosswinds so

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are landing a little bit delayed if

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you've been following along but the

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plane now on the ground pulling into the

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and with that the plane comes to a stop

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again the first order of business going

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to be that customs processing for

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everybody on board is this stop in

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houston is the first port of call for

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on returning to the united states

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and once that's complete we'll begin to

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the friends family guests and other

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dignitaries begin to file in and get

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ready to welcome scott home after his

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and again a live view of nasa 992 the

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plane we're turning scott kelly home to

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houston just now pulled into the hangar

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again the first order of business will

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be those customs checks and then they'll

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be able to begin deplaning

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on board scott kelly is joined by a

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number of personnel including his flight

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surgeon dr stephen gilmore two

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astronauts also on board chris cassidy

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the chief astronaut as well as joe acaba

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with the pilots and various aircraft

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and so one of the first people we should

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joel montelbano and he is the deputy

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program manager for the international

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which is a fancy word for science that

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he'll actually be coming off the plane

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kelly came from kelly and came down in

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the soyuz spacecraft and are going to be

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returned as quickly as possible to labs

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and again at this point customs

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do a quick passport check for all of

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and after that we'll be able to begin

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our events get scott kelly off that

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allow him to greet all of the gathered

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people very excited to see him many of

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them all of them i haven't seen him for

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and so again a lot of the science not

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done yet uh with scott kelly's one-year

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mission a lot more for him to do having

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returned now to earth however while he

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was on board science was the primary

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goal as it is with all of these

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expeditions but something was very

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special about scots here in space is it

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is really a stepping stone to getting us

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ready and trying to answer all the

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questions that are still outstanding

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before we can start sending humans to

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mars one of the most important studies

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kelly was involved with was called fluid

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shifts and is studying and trying to

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explain and counteract a phenomenon that

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is noticed that has been found with some

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crew members not all where they actually

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lose visual acuity so they lose some of

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their visual prowess while they're in

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space and it doesn't always come back to

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normal once they're back on the ground

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the fluid shift study use a chibis

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device it's a funny pantsuit actually

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that the russians would wear

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traditionally before they return home

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that

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counteracts what's known as fluid shifts

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so when you're in the microgravity

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environment all of that fluid that

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naturally pools in your legs down here

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on planet earth redistributes a lot of

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it going through your torso area but

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it's specifically the head and that is

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one of the suspected culprits for

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causing this visual problem is that

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increased pressure in the head so fluid

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shifts a groundbreaking study with both

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scott kelly and mikhail kornigenko

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looking to counteract or target one of

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the prime suspects for that visual

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problem and then develop the counter

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measures that will be able to keep our

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astronauts cosmonauts safe in orbit now

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this study again made use of both scott

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kelly and mikhail kornienko both

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one-year crew members and both nasa and

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rose cosmos already deciding to continue

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that

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over 400 studies taking place on board

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the international space station during

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scott's time on orbit that ranged from

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everything from material science to

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those human research projects to a

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number of other studies that are getting

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us ready for the journey to mars one

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that caught a lot of people's attention

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a lot of people's imagination was the

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work with the veggie experiment

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which is studying plant growth in outer

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space

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as we know everything that we do in

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microgravity very different from how we

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do it down here on planet earth and

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veggie no different looking to study how

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we can grow plants simple plants at

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first but eventually with the goal of

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growing

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nutritional fruits vegetables things

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like that that the crew members don't

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always have access to when they're in

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space is that would add a lot of

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nutritional value and a very great

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psychological tool as well to keep these

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astronauts

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very interested getting word now that

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they're getting ready to go off the

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plane so we're going to go back out to

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ellington field to make sure we catch

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there we see joe acaba and one of the

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backup flight surgeons and nasa public

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affairs officer rob navies dr stephen

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gilmour and then chris cassidy and then

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the man himself the man of the hour

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and as we've seen cincy touchdown scott

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kelly in very great spirits looking in

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very great health brother mark kelly

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there on the left as you can probably

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saying hello to his father

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laughs

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with scott kelly off the plane though a

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15 to 20 minute timer has started as he

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is scheduled to be in crew quarters uh

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fairly soon to begin those data takes

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but for now savoring the moment back in

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houston seeing his family for the first

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and they're greeting dr jill biden

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second lady of the united states and on

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the right there

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is dr john holdren the white house

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and their

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johnson space center director ellen

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sorry

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do you feel like you're here

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scott kelly saying hello to terry verts

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and chell ingram two nasa astronauts who

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served on board the international space

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i wanted to say a few words to everyone

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before i know it's late and uh it would

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have been great to get here quicker um

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i'm used to going 17 500 miles an hour

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but this airplane doesn't do quite that

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so it took us some time but with the

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great support of the crew we got here

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safely you know it was a very long trip

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uh when i left here in in february i

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don't even know what day it was in

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february i was 50 and now i'm 52.

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so

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uh but it feels great it's great to be

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back in texas in uh us on u.s soil

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it's just an unbelievable feeling to be

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to be back here on planet earth back in

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our great country and back with all my

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my family and my my friends

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i want to recognize my girlfriend and

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partner amico here that's been in

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lockstep with me the whole time during

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this whole experience

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um helping me uh

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in an incredible way all along the way

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my daughter samantha and charlotte

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charlotte came from all the way from

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virginia

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today so she's probably pretty tired

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um

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my brother mark who has been very very

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supportive of me the whole

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way and

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and my friends and family but also i

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want to obviously recognize dr

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biden for coming out here to welcome me

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home it's very very special and thank

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you um

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and uh it's it's a real honor and dr

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holdren and general bolden as well i

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really really appreciate that

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i missed everyone very much

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340 days aboard the space station

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represented the coming together of

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thousands of people engineers flight

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controllers support personnel scientists

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flight surgeons especially my flight

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surgeon over here steve gilmore who was

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the only guy besides my family that was

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a part of this for the entire year

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certainly there were program managers

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and stuff but he was he was there every

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day for me he's been my doctor for the

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last 10 years

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and thanks to all these people that did

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their job exceptionally well i'm back

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here

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i also want to say this was not my

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flight they've talked about my year in

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space

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it's not my achievement it's nasa's

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achievement and it's our country's

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achievement

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i was lucky to spend an incredible year

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with some incredible people that are

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here today to greet me back on earth

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crew members that are here and people

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that aren't here american astronauts

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astronauts from other countries

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and russian cosmonauts from around the

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world it was a privilege to fly with all

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you know one of the things that i

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thought a lot about during this year is

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that there's no greater privilege than

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serving your country however and

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wherever you might do it this mission is

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the latest achievement in our country

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space program

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but it's not the last there will be more

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it's in our dna

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of our country to explore and we must

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never stop doing this we must lead

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we must learn and we must discover

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thanks thank you all very much for

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coming out here to see me

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and

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again i just want to emphasize this is a

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huge team effort

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amiko told me one time teamwork makes

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the dream work and this is the biggest

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team sport there is space flight and

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it's about all of us not just one person

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we're going to let scott get out of here

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but before we do

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one quick thing i wanted to say scott on

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behalf of all of us and your team

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welcome home uh i want to thank your

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entire family um and your friends who

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have been supporting you who've been

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through this made special sacrifices i

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think all of you heard scott talk about

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the fact that his flight was another

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step on the journey to mars and he has

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done an incredible job

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people love you they love everything

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you've done so on behalf of all of us

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welcome back and i want to introduce the

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president science advisor dr john

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holdren who i think wants to say thanks

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well thank you charlie and and uh

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thank you scott

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for your amazing service

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um

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you very generously noted it's not just

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your achievement it's nasa's achievement

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it's the country's achievement that's

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all true but you were out there at the

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point of the spear

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and

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you have

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your whole career

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set an example that's an inspiration to

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our young people it's an inspiration to

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the country it's an inspiration to the

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world

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i also want to recognize the

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extraordinary role of your brother mark

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who

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on top of his four missions in space was

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now monitored the whole time you were up

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there being monitored mark was down here

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being monitored giving us an

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unprecedented benchmark

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of extraordinary relevance to understand

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the physiological changes to which

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people are exposed in space

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it's going to help us

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figure out how to deal with those

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physiological changes on the even longer

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missions

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that are ahead when we go to mars and we

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are going to go to mars

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there is no doubt about that we are

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committed to it

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we're going to get it done

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and you really have established the

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latest milestone on that very

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challenging pathway so thank you for

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that and let me now turn it over

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to

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dr jill biden the second lady of the

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united states

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who was very gracious to come and join

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this event

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thank you

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welcome home scott on behalf of

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president obama our first lady michelle

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obama our vice president my husband and

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all americans

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i want to congratulate you on your year

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in space

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and you truly are an inspiration to all

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of us i had the opportunity to bring

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some military

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children here with me tonight and

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who were involved with stem education

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and they got to see the johnson space

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center and uh to meet your family your

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wonderful family and mark

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and um

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really they

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you just inspired them to to want to go

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into the space program and be a part of

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it and you're doing that for so many

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young americans and i thank you for that

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so good luck i brought you some beer and

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apple pie nothing's more american than

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that's what he said he wanted so

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that's what i brought him the beer is

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from the president actually from his

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from the garden and uh the apple pie is

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just from all americans so we hold you

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in our hearts

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i'm happy to be here

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please

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uh

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um

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and so at this point scott kelly making

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his way into the van he's going to be

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headed off to crew quarters

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to begin the reconditioning process and

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all the medical checkups and the data

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takes responsible for continuing his

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mission

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now that he's back down here on the

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and so with that scott kelly back on u.s

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soil for the first time in more than a

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year

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back with his friends and family and

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back here in houston and of course like

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we said the science doesn't stop just

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because scott's not in space anymore

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he's going to continue giving samples

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and data takes over the next year so his

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one year mission very much a three-year

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mission with both all of the stuff he

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did before flight during and now what's

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ahead for him afterwards and of course

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this isn't the last time we're going to

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see scott kelly this week as we are

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going to have some exciting press

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conferences coming up on friday march

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4th the first of those will be our one

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year mission science briefing where we

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will sit down with some of the brilliant

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minds behind the one year science

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mission both the human research and the

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larger station research at large

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as well as mark kelly scott's twin

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brother that'll take place at 12 p.m

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central time 1 p.m eastern and then of

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course will be the moment to talk with

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scott kelly his first media availability

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following his return from space after

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340 days and that'll be at 1 pm central

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2 p.m eastern here at the johnson space

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center so with that be sure to follow

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along with the one year mission online

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at nasa.gov one year and thank you for

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tuning in this evening to welcome back

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scott kelly to houston and to welcome

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him back at the end of his mission with