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good afternoon and welcome to the

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johnson space center where we have the

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man of the hour scott kelly with us just

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returned from a year in space here to

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answer a lot of questions and i am not

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going to get in the way of that but

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we'll start with letting him just say

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hello and welcome back to earth

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well thanks for

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being here everyone and uh coming to

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welcome me back to houston it's great to

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be back in

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in this uh city and this state in our

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country it's a real privilege to be part

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of this and part of something so great

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and i appreciate your time being here

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today thank you

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okay i know we've got a lot of questions

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here in the room and then also on the

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phone bridge so we're going to start

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the phone bridge for those who are on

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the phone bridge if you will press star

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question and star 2 when your question

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on the internet and want to participate

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via social media you can also do that

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using the hashtag asknasa

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all right let's start here in the room

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if you have a question raise your hand

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and then we'll start with genius and

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i mean you've done this so long did

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anything really surprise you about the

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year in space or was it what you

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i think the only big surprise was how

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a year is it seemed like i'd lived there

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forever uh seemed longer than i thought

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it would be but i did uh having flown

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before i did pace myself appropriately

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so i felt uh pretty good about that um

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so as far as the flight is concerned

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that that was the only real surprise

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your earth as art just went viral

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what's what about that really struck you

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when you would look down at earth every

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well the earth is a

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beautiful

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planet it's uh you know everything

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practically everything to us it's very

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important to our

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our survival and it's the space station

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is a great vantage point to observe it

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you know to share

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our planet in pictures

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and you also notice you know how the

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atmosphere looks and how fragile it

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makes you more of a environmentalist

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after spending so much time looking down

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at our planet okay we are going to limit

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sometimes i spend here couple days at

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home when i'm sick and i go stir crazy

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how do you stay one year without going

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absolutely bananas and was there a point

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where you said well i'm working as a

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human guinea pig

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maybe occasionally you do go bananas but

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you know just focusing you know trying

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to say stay like hyper focused on what

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you need to do what you need to pay

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it's it's critical to your survival um

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you know the car the navy had a term

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compartmentalized you know try to

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you know just focus at the task of hand

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at hand take it one day at a time it's

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very important try not to um

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you know i tried to have like i tried to

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have milestones that were close like

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when is the next crew arriving when is

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the next visiting vehicle arriving the

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next dva the next robotics the next big

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science activity and i think that made a

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made a difference to me keeping my

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all right how about right here

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kevin from kcra hi scott welcome back um

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two questions number one uh mark said

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that you did notice uh physically some

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changes upon your return can you detail

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those and number two i remember before

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completed while you were gone was all

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the construction on iphone 5.

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that's not done

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what do you say now about that

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hoping and you just you know let me know

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that it wasn't done that's something

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my skin that because it hadn't touched

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burning feeling on wherever i like sit

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i actually have these are i'm not

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wearing these shoes all the time i just

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wore these for you guys i got some hoka

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hi scott welcome back tom crosstalk with

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nbc uh to follow up on that so

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talk to us about uh you know coming back

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long-duration flight before because i i

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destination asteroid or mars do you

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the choice hey we're going to do this

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set uh a time yeah i think we can do it

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there is a little bit of irony in the

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it's it's got aaron berger with

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architect welcome back sorry to say that

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to help you out and you know sit you

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down and stuff do you feel at that point

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like you could have gotten out of a

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capsule or out of a spacecraft put on a

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space suit and sort of set up base camp

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you know on mars or wherever so

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good question i actually learned

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something on this flight that i didn't

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really fully appreciate and that is when

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that soyuz lands upright you're pretty

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much getting out of it yourself

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i always had the assumption that you

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know someone they would kind of reach

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down and unstrap the commander and then

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sort of somehow pull him out but uh when

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it's when it lands upright

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he he basically got halfway out you know

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unstrapped himself which is not easy in

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that thing and which how much room is in

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there

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um

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so he he unstrapped himself got halfway

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out then they pulled him out i had to

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un-strap close the hatch

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move over to his seat open the hatch

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get up outside and

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get myself about halfway out before they

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could pull me out so i i got a sense for

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yes i could do that you know mars has

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has less gravity which is which is

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helpful as well but

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i think probably what

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if we would have had a ballistic landing

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and landed landed upright i could have

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gotten

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of the caps a little bit of challenge

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getting down the side if no one was

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there to help us because you'd kind of

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you know fall off the top of the capsule

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then you'd probably sit there for a long

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time and adapt and then try to do

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whatever you needed to do to you know to

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continue on with your your business

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okay i'm mobile cbs news you're quite

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prolific on social media can you talk

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about why you decided to go full

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throttle on that how important it was

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and i'm also curious of all the major

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news events that happened on earth in

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this one year that you were gone were

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there any that greatly impacted you up

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there

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good questions

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um

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so the social media part of it was

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my girlfriend and long time partner miko

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is here and she works for nasa pao and

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she helped me with that

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and that was something that

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we could share together so

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it was a combination of me being able to

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share the experience with people on

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earth but it was something that we could

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work on together which made the

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experience

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for both of us i think

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more rewarding

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rather than our conversations on a daily

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basis being what did you do today

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you know i went to the store i went to

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the gym i went to work we could work on

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this as a project together and

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so it was a combination of wanting to

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share the experience but also want to do

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something with her and she did an

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outstanding job as you can as you can

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see on this

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so uh you know i applaud her and do not

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take credit for this whole thing i mean

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it was it was a partnership so

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um as far as the news is concerned

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one news story

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and

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i follow the news more closely i i kind

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of have a little bit of withdrawal now

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i've been so busy i haven't been able to

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follow the news

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i was asking my flight doc steve here as

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when we landed how super tuesday went

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it's one of the first questions i asked

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him when i got out of the out of

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the capsule because we have uh i have

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the news on

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you know all the time up there so you're

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always kind of listening to it and

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actually

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having the news on this uh projector tv

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it actually gives you an audio

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indication of whether you have this the

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k-u-com link so you know whether you

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have email or the phone

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you can just hear if the you know the

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news feed starts up so it's actually

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serves a dual role of keeping you

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connected to what's on earth and

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kind of like an operational role but uh

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so what did you think about how super

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tuesday went

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um

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i would say

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that

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as a government employee i'm subject to

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the hatch act so i can't say what i

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think but

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i will say that of all the news stories

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uh throughout the year

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that's one that has been going on for a

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long time and has been taking up a lot

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of the the uh

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the uh you know the airwaves and i paid

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attention to it very very closely

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all right let's go right here

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robert with collectspace.com

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working off of that and the mention of

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the tv

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and creature comforts in space you

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mentioned a

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week ago or so

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about the size of your crew quarters and

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perhaps them not being large enough can

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you elaborate on that a little bit and

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also if there was anything else about

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the space station that made your stay

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for a year easier or harder yeah so i

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didn't i didn't say they weren't large

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enough i think what i said is i spent a

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lot of time in that very small space if

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you can consider the fact that you know

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you sleep in there and then if you're

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you know going in there at lunchtime to

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work do work email or or whatever and

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then you spend a few hours in the

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evening i probably spent like six months

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in that little box but that doesn't mean

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it's too too small i think as far as

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size is concerned it's appropriate what

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i think the point i was trying to make

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is that

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if you are going to mars

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or some destination you're going to be

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especially when you're in a smaller

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vehicle than the space station is and

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you're kind of living on top of one

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another having that

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space that you spend so much time in

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is very very important and you need to

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make it as perfect as you can with

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regards to you know the the uh the

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environment as far as the

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you know the air the temperature the

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having interfaces with the systems

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having communication having some

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entertainment and noise abatement will

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be very important because you know

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you're going to be sleeping and you know

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living and exercising and eating and

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doing everything right on top of one

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another so and it's something that's

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easy to do too i don't think it's a

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technical challenge to make that

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crew quarters which is not bad i'm not

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really complaining i'm just saying we

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should make it better or as best as we

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possibly can

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okay right through here hi john ferguson

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galveston daily news

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i'm wondering was there ever a

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particular moment where you felt

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homesick i know you talked about being

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psychologically prepared but

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you know there

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there are um

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certainly family issues that happen

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crises

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like my last flight as you all know my

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sister-in-law gabby was was shot and

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i wouldn't characterize it as feeling

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homesick but certainly you know you feel

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like you want to be there but you know

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it's not like i felt physically

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affected

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or you know

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it didn't

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but you certainly long for things at

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home

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um but i wouldn't characterize it as

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like having the blues or something like

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that yeah

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just a reminder if you're following

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along at home to use the hashtag ask

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nasa on social media to get a question

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to us and we'll take a couple of those

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in just a couple minutes but let's start

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over here now alexandra becker with

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texas medical center news welcome home

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um in regards to the twin study is there

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an area of that research that you're

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most interested in or that you're most

490
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excited about learning

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yeah absolutely i think you know the the

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genetic-based part of it there are a

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bunch of different experiments but some

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of them has to do with

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you know my brother and my dna being

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almost identical and what are the

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effects of

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space flight on that and that's an area

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that

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this is our first time getting involved

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in that those kind of studies

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um

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in space for nasa but also i think just

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in general you know this kind of genetic

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based research is something that's new

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for us so that's i mean to me very

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exciting because it's it's new it's also

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obviously personal

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um there's information that we'll be

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able to find out uh about ourselves and

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our

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there's some questions about how that's

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dealt with from a privacy issue but it's

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and it's something that we can we'll

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we'll talk about in the future but all

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that's that's very interesting

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right here

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kevin reese with khw here in houston you

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you've talked a little bit about some of

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the the physical changes that you felt

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but uh in the brief time that you've had

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with your brother

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have you guys i don't know how connected

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you are as twins have you noticed

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anything while we're waiting for the

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science

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that is different about you he's got a

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i think he's

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i don't think he goes to the tanning bed

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though i think it's because he plays too

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much golf and his timing at the time on

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his hands

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but beyond that it's too early to tell

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you guys looking at each other you you

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don't know you haven't had time to

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discuss

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um yeah not nothing nothing that that

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comes to mind right now

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i don't know where that came from i i

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did measure myself and it was an inch

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and a half so maybe somebody just

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decided to round up and write it as a

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fact

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so

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but

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let's take a couple questions from

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social media we have our social media

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specialists here in the room to voice

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them

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awesome so this question comes to us on

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twitter from andrew zajac and he's

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wondering what is was it more difficult

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mentally or physically adjusting to your

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urine space

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adjusting to space is easier than

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you know you do feel a little you know

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you don't feel i don't think i ever felt

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completely normal um up there there's

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always some little subtlety of how

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you're feeling even after you've been up

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there for

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340 days um

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but

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yeah i

565
00:20:10,870 --> 00:20:08,799
think coming back to gravity is harder

566
00:20:12,950 --> 00:20:10,880
than leaving gravity

567
00:20:16,549 --> 00:20:12,960
so i don't know maybe the aliens got it

568
00:20:21,750 --> 00:20:18,630
another interesting one

569
00:20:23,830 --> 00:20:21,760
coming to us from lucasree on twitter is

570
00:20:27,029 --> 00:20:23,840
what did you do in your spare time when

571
00:20:30,470 --> 00:20:27,039
you were in space for the year

572
00:20:38,149 --> 00:20:34,870
talk on the phone do email take pictures

573
00:20:42,710 --> 00:20:41,590
watch tv shows and movies

574
00:20:44,950 --> 00:20:42,720
that's

575
00:20:46,870 --> 00:20:44,960
most of it

576
00:20:49,430 --> 00:20:46,880
awesome and this is more concerning the

577
00:20:51,750 --> 00:20:49,440
work you did but liz collins is asking

578
00:20:53,350 --> 00:20:51,760
on behalf of her fifth grade class what

579
00:20:57,669 --> 00:20:53,360
was your favorite year in space

580
00:21:02,390 --> 00:21:00,230
my favorite i really liked the rodent

581
00:21:05,750 --> 00:21:02,400
research we did because it was so

582
00:21:11,029 --> 00:21:07,909
and it was such a large operation

583
00:21:11,990 --> 00:21:11,039
there's some things we do that are

584
00:21:14,390 --> 00:21:12,000
you know

585
00:21:16,149 --> 00:21:14,400
you could do an experiment that

586
00:21:17,669 --> 00:21:16,159
you just get the procedure and you start

587
00:21:19,669 --> 00:21:17,679
doing the experiment and then there's

588
00:21:21,270 --> 00:21:19,679
things like the space walk which takes

589
00:21:22,630 --> 00:21:21,280
you sometimes

590
00:21:24,070 --> 00:21:22,640
um

591
00:21:26,230 --> 00:21:24,080
you know a couple of months to prepare

592
00:21:27,190 --> 00:21:26,240
for or in one time in our case just five

593
00:21:29,590 --> 00:21:27,200
days

594
00:21:33,830 --> 00:21:29,600
uh but then the rodents were kind of in

595
00:21:35,750 --> 00:21:33,840
that kind of realm of of things that uh

596
00:21:38,870 --> 00:21:35,760
you know take a lot of preparation a lot

597
00:21:41,190 --> 00:21:38,880
of setup very meticulous and

598
00:21:43,510 --> 00:21:41,200
you know because it does involve animals

599
00:21:45,430 --> 00:21:43,520
it's got to be done a certain way

600
00:21:47,350 --> 00:21:45,440
in a very humane way and then the

601
00:21:49,909 --> 00:21:47,360
science we were doing was was very

602
00:21:51,990 --> 00:21:49,919
interesting as well and uh

603
00:21:54,230 --> 00:21:52,000
associated with them so i think if i had

604
00:21:56,549 --> 00:21:54,240
to say one experiments experiment it

605
00:21:58,149 --> 00:21:56,559
would be that

606
00:22:00,390 --> 00:21:58,159
all right um just a reminder for the

607
00:22:01,830 --> 00:22:00,400
people on the phone bridge to press star

608
00:22:02,950 --> 00:22:01,840
one if you have a question we'll go over

609
00:22:04,789 --> 00:22:02,960
there in just a minute but i think we've

610
00:22:07,110 --> 00:22:04,799
got another one in here in the room go

611
00:22:08,710 --> 00:22:07,120
ahead yes uh jake reiner with kprc

612
00:22:10,789 --> 00:22:08,720
channel two

613
00:22:13,029 --> 00:22:10,799
can you explain why it's more difficult

614
00:22:15,350 --> 00:22:13,039
to come back to gravity than it is going

615
00:22:18,390 --> 00:22:15,360
the other way

616
00:22:22,549 --> 00:22:20,710
yeah i don't i don't know why it's

617
00:22:24,390 --> 00:22:22,559
that feels the way that way for me i

618
00:22:28,149 --> 00:22:24,400
don't know if steve has

619
00:22:31,430 --> 00:22:29,669
you've had a lot of experience of going

620
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in space and

621
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not quite so much returning after a year

622
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so

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00:22:40,710 --> 00:22:37,039
your body just gets very used to gravity

624
00:22:44,549 --> 00:22:41,510
yeah

625
00:22:48,310 --> 00:22:46,789
some people have a big issue going to

626
00:22:50,710 --> 00:22:48,320
space i mean maybe maybe it's just

627
00:22:52,950 --> 00:22:50,720
person dependent i don't know um

628
00:22:56,070 --> 00:22:52,960
but some people get really sick i'm just

629
00:22:58,470 --> 00:22:56,080
not one of those and uh

630
00:23:00,390 --> 00:22:58,480
but coming back i definitely feel like

631
00:23:03,750 --> 00:23:00,400
this is this is harder

632
00:23:05,110 --> 00:23:03,760
than uh than doing that

633
00:23:06,630 --> 00:23:05,120
all right one more here in the room then

634
00:23:08,390 --> 00:23:06,640
we'll go to the phone bridge talk a

635
00:23:09,909 --> 00:23:08,400
little about what your time back has

636
00:23:10,950 --> 00:23:09,919
been like but can you describe it a

637
00:23:12,710 --> 00:23:10,960
little more

638
00:23:13,590 --> 00:23:12,720
how busy have you been

639
00:23:15,430 --> 00:23:13,600
so we

640
00:23:17,270 --> 00:23:15,440
we landed at uh

641
00:23:19,029 --> 00:23:17,280
i don't know what was up one in the

642
00:23:21,830 --> 00:23:19,039
morning i think

643
00:23:23,510 --> 00:23:21,840
yeah my two flight

644
00:23:25,350 --> 00:23:23,520
steve um

645
00:23:29,590 --> 00:23:25,360
we landed

646
00:23:32,630 --> 00:23:29,600
did some medical tests there

647
00:23:34,710 --> 00:23:32,640
from norway we were gonna fly to uh

648
00:23:37,669 --> 00:23:34,720
goose bay canada but the weather was bad

649
00:23:39,590 --> 00:23:37,679
and we went landed in gander

650
00:23:41,029 --> 00:23:39,600
right gander

651
00:23:43,190 --> 00:23:41,039
a lot of the time on the plane i was

652
00:23:45,110 --> 00:23:43,200
trying to sleep which is was kind of

653
00:23:49,269 --> 00:23:45,120
hard because it was i was uncomfortable

654
00:23:53,110 --> 00:23:50,950
but i did sleep some

655
00:23:54,070 --> 00:23:53,120
and then when we got back i went back

656
00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:54,080
over

657
00:23:58,549 --> 00:23:56,320
to jsc here to some of the medical

658
00:24:00,710 --> 00:23:58,559
facilities and did some tests had

659
00:24:01,990 --> 00:24:00,720
physical exam blood

660
00:24:05,269 --> 00:24:02,000
drawn

661
00:24:07,590 --> 00:24:05,279
did this uh functional fitness test

662
00:24:10,230 --> 00:24:07,600
which is kind of a test of your you know

663
00:24:10,950 --> 00:24:10,240
your physical ability to do things if

664
00:24:15,510 --> 00:24:10,960
you

665
00:24:17,830 --> 00:24:15,520
from from space

666
00:24:20,950 --> 00:24:17,840
and then the next day so i got home at

667
00:24:22,789 --> 00:24:20,960
about 4 a.m jumped in my pool was up by

668
00:24:25,190 --> 00:24:22,799
about nine in the morning

669
00:24:27,430 --> 00:24:25,200
back at work at 10 for a bunch more

670
00:24:28,789 --> 00:24:27,440
medical tests yes which was yesterday

671
00:24:29,830 --> 00:24:28,799
actually

672
00:24:32,950 --> 00:24:29,840
um

673
00:24:35,350 --> 00:24:32,960
a bunch more medical tests and

674
00:24:38,070 --> 00:24:35,360
did this functional fitness test again

675
00:24:39,110 --> 00:24:38,080
did some other tests of of uh you know

676
00:24:41,190 --> 00:24:39,120
on my

677
00:24:44,950 --> 00:24:41,200
muscle strength

678
00:24:47,269 --> 00:24:44,960
that took some time today i was at utmb

679
00:24:48,789 --> 00:24:47,279
and victory lakes and had a bunch of

680
00:24:54,310 --> 00:24:48,799
mris

681
00:24:56,549 --> 00:24:54,320
japanese experiment

682
00:24:59,669 --> 00:24:56,559
this afternoon and now i'm here so it's

683
00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:01,029
all busy let's go down to the phone

684
00:25:04,549 --> 00:25:03,120
bridge one more reminder if you have a

685
00:25:06,310 --> 00:25:04,559
question on the phone bridge press star

686
00:25:08,310 --> 00:25:06,320
one to let us know and if your question

687
00:25:10,390 --> 00:25:08,320
is answered press star two to go out of

688
00:25:12,870 --> 00:25:10,400
the queue and you can keep sending in

689
00:25:14,310 --> 00:25:12,880
the ask nasa hashtag questions on social

690
00:25:15,669 --> 00:25:14,320
media we'll try and answer some more of

691
00:25:16,950 --> 00:25:15,679
those a little later

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00:25:19,750 --> 00:25:16,960
let's start with marcia dunn from the

693
00:25:22,230 --> 00:25:19,760
associated press

694
00:25:24,310 --> 00:25:22,240
yes hi uh welcome back scott um you're

695
00:25:26,950 --> 00:25:24,320
being offered up as the poster boy for

696
00:25:29,029 --> 00:25:26,960
mars and i'm i'm wondering how you feel

697
00:25:31,430 --> 00:25:29,039
about that and do you have any insight

698
00:25:33,350 --> 00:25:31,440
on what about you

699
00:25:34,310 --> 00:25:33,360
helped you persevere

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00:25:37,510 --> 00:25:34,320
um

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00:25:39,029 --> 00:25:37,520
succeed on all fronts it seems and and

702
00:25:41,990 --> 00:25:39,039
would be good at something like this i

703
00:25:43,350 --> 00:25:42,000
mean what insight do you have and how

704
00:25:46,789 --> 00:25:43,360
might nasa

705
00:25:48,310 --> 00:25:46,799
pick crews based on your experience

706
00:25:50,310 --> 00:25:48,320
well i don't know about the poster boy

707
00:25:51,750 --> 00:25:50,320
but

708
00:25:52,789 --> 00:25:51,760
i don't know anything about that marcia

709
00:25:54,470 --> 00:25:52,799
but

710
00:25:55,830 --> 00:25:54,480
i you know i think nasa does a good job

711
00:25:57,350 --> 00:25:55,840
of picking people for these type of

712
00:25:58,630 --> 00:25:57,360
things and if it wasn't me doing this it

713
00:26:00,710 --> 00:25:58,640
would have been one of my colleagues and

714
00:26:03,669 --> 00:26:00,720
they would have i'm sure done just as

715
00:26:05,029 --> 00:26:03,679
good a job as i did or better um

716
00:26:07,029 --> 00:26:05,039
you know it just so happens that i was

717
00:26:10,070 --> 00:26:07,039
the first person to do this and it

718
00:26:12,549 --> 00:26:10,080
doesn't necessarily mean i'm the best or

719
00:26:15,350 --> 00:26:12,559
or you know would be better than anyone

720
00:26:17,029 --> 00:26:15,360
else um i think we have a lot of very

721
00:26:19,190 --> 00:26:17,039
talented and dedicated people in our

722
00:26:21,110 --> 00:26:19,200
office and i think you know many of them

723
00:26:25,110 --> 00:26:21,120
could have done just as good or better

724
00:26:27,110 --> 00:26:25,120
at this maybe the night i did

725
00:26:29,430 --> 00:26:27,120
okay how about next tracy watson from

726
00:26:31,350 --> 00:26:29,440
usa today

727
00:26:32,710 --> 00:26:31,360
hi thanks for taking my question i was

728
00:26:35,590 --> 00:26:32,720
just wondering if you're having a little

729
00:26:37,909 --> 00:26:35,600
trouble with things not behaving in 1g

730
00:26:40,149 --> 00:26:37,919
as they do in zero g and i wanted to

731
00:26:41,750 --> 00:26:40,159
know also about uh which muscles are

732
00:26:43,669 --> 00:26:41,760
affected what is the kind of muscles

733
00:26:46,310 --> 00:26:43,679
that you don't use in zero g or if it's

734
00:26:48,070 --> 00:26:46,320
just kind of everything thanks

735
00:26:50,630 --> 00:26:48,080
the first thing i tried to throw on a on

736
00:26:52,630 --> 00:26:50,640
a table i missed i tried to shoot some

737
00:26:55,350 --> 00:26:52,640
basketballs yesterday and i didn't get

738
00:26:56,870 --> 00:26:55,360
any of them in the hoop in the net

739
00:26:58,789 --> 00:26:56,880
not that i'm a good basketball player in

740
00:27:00,710 --> 00:26:58,799
general anyway but i

741
00:27:02,870 --> 00:27:00,720
um

742
00:27:05,269 --> 00:27:02,880
i i don't seem to have a tendency though

743
00:27:07,510 --> 00:27:05,279
to want to drop things like some people

744
00:27:09,510 --> 00:27:07,520
i've never on my first flight that was

745
00:27:12,390 --> 00:27:09,520
seven days i had that tendency to want

746
00:27:15,269 --> 00:27:12,400
to let something go but never again you

747
00:27:17,750 --> 00:27:15,279
know let something float um

748
00:27:18,630 --> 00:27:17,760
but definitely throwing things you

749
00:27:20,710 --> 00:27:18,640
you

750
00:27:22,470 --> 00:27:20,720
tend to underestimate the effects of

751
00:27:24,149 --> 00:27:22,480
gravity you know what's really harder

752
00:27:25,190 --> 00:27:24,159
though is throwing something in space

753
00:27:28,310 --> 00:27:25,200
straight

754
00:27:30,149 --> 00:27:28,320
because that that is a hard thing to not

755
00:27:31,750 --> 00:27:30,159
to to

756
00:27:35,510 --> 00:27:31,760
compensate for not having gravity you

757
00:27:37,990 --> 00:27:35,520
always wind up lofting everything um

758
00:27:39,430 --> 00:27:38,000
and the second part of the question i

759
00:27:43,750 --> 00:27:39,440
forget now tracy can you repeat the

760
00:27:52,070 --> 00:27:46,070
i think what muscle verbs were oh muscle

761
00:27:58,630 --> 00:27:53,669
all right how about next uh we'll hear

762
00:28:02,950 --> 00:28:01,110
commander kelly welcome back um you uh

763
00:28:04,950 --> 00:28:02,960
test uh this is tom risen with us news

764
00:28:07,350 --> 00:28:04,960
uh you tested the hololens on the

765
00:28:08,789 --> 00:28:07,360
station uh can you talk about uh what do

766
00:28:11,110 --> 00:28:08,799
you think the potential of virtual

767
00:28:13,190 --> 00:28:11,120
reality could be in space uh

768
00:28:14,710 --> 00:28:13,200
what are could it help pass the time or

769
00:28:16,630 --> 00:28:14,720
could it be a little bit disorienting

770
00:28:18,789 --> 00:28:16,640
because you're in small quarters and

771
00:28:20,310 --> 00:28:18,799
uh i know that some people uh complain

772
00:28:22,870 --> 00:28:20,320
that virtual reality can mess with your

773
00:28:25,590 --> 00:28:22,880
eyes or it can be a little disorienting

774
00:28:27,830 --> 00:28:25,600
what are your thoughts about vr in space

775
00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:27,840
i think virtual reality has a lot of

776
00:28:34,870 --> 00:28:30,720
potential um you know with the device

777
00:28:37,909 --> 00:28:34,880
you mentioned we were doing a test and

778
00:28:40,710 --> 00:28:37,919
there's it has uh had cameras on it and

779
00:28:43,269 --> 00:28:40,720
we could also see like a you know a

780
00:28:46,710 --> 00:28:43,279
display that's in your field of view

781
00:28:49,029 --> 00:28:46,720
where the person on the ground could be

782
00:28:51,510 --> 00:28:49,039
drawing things in your field of view and

783
00:28:53,909 --> 00:28:51,520
and pointing to things

784
00:28:54,870 --> 00:28:53,919
and i could be doing the same thing like

785
00:28:57,029 --> 00:28:54,880
you know if you're trying to do a

786
00:28:58,470 --> 00:28:57,039
maintenance procedure i could say hey is

787
00:29:00,710 --> 00:28:58,480
this the

788
00:29:03,029 --> 00:29:00,720
bolt or connector you're talking about

789
00:29:05,110 --> 00:29:03,039
and the person can just write an arrow

790
00:29:07,750 --> 00:29:05,120
in your field of view and it worked

791
00:29:09,590 --> 00:29:07,760
great i was really surprised that the we

792
00:29:10,389 --> 00:29:09,600
messed around with it for like two hours

793
00:29:12,789 --> 00:29:10,399
and it

794
00:29:14,630 --> 00:29:12,799
immediately i sense this is a capability

795
00:29:17,029 --> 00:29:14,640
we could use right now you could put a

796
00:29:19,909 --> 00:29:17,039
put a procedure in your field of view

797
00:29:21,669 --> 00:29:19,919
maybe off to the side um

798
00:29:23,750 --> 00:29:21,679
and then you know be working on

799
00:29:25,590 --> 00:29:23,760
something and just glance right up at it

800
00:29:28,549 --> 00:29:25,600
or even looking through it you can

801
00:29:30,470 --> 00:29:28,559
change the opacity of the procedure so

802
00:29:33,190 --> 00:29:30,480
it's right in your field of view it's

803
00:29:35,830 --> 00:29:33,200
pretty impressive

804
00:29:37,510 --> 00:29:35,840
so i i think it's got great but not only

805
00:29:40,070 --> 00:29:37,520
this this device but just the the

806
00:29:41,990 --> 00:29:40,080
technology in general has got great uh

807
00:29:43,190 --> 00:29:42,000
potential for applications not only in

808
00:29:45,750 --> 00:29:43,200
space but

809
00:29:46,789 --> 00:29:45,760
of course on earth as well as far as it

810
00:29:49,350 --> 00:29:46,799
messing

811
00:29:50,710 --> 00:29:49,360
with you uh vestibularly it actually has

812
00:29:52,870 --> 00:29:50,720
a game on it

813
00:29:55,590 --> 00:29:52,880
where you uh

814
00:29:57,430 --> 00:29:55,600
it has like alien spaceships coming

815
00:29:59,110 --> 00:29:57,440
inside the space station and there's

816
00:29:59,990 --> 00:29:59,120
these like aliens attacking you you

817
00:30:03,190 --> 00:30:00,000
gotta

818
00:30:04,630 --> 00:30:03,200
and we were playing around with that a

819
00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:04,640
little bit too and that didn't seem to

820
00:30:13,830 --> 00:30:09,360
make anyone sick it was kind of fun

821
00:30:16,070 --> 00:30:13,840
okay next up irene klotz from reuters

822
00:30:17,750 --> 00:30:16,080
hi thanks very much um i thought you

823
00:30:19,430 --> 00:30:17,760
took some really beautiful pictures of

824
00:30:22,549 --> 00:30:19,440
the planet while you were up there and

825
00:30:24,950 --> 00:30:22,559
just was wondering um from your

826
00:30:26,470 --> 00:30:24,960
new new perspective and long perspective

827
00:30:28,950 --> 00:30:26,480
if there's any place that you

828
00:30:31,430 --> 00:30:28,960
particularly want to go now

829
00:30:33,430 --> 00:30:31,440
and also if you feel that you're you

830
00:30:35,029 --> 00:30:33,440
know back on the planet to stay now if

831
00:30:36,389 --> 00:30:35,039
there's any other

832
00:30:39,110 --> 00:30:36,399
things that you

833
00:30:41,669 --> 00:30:39,120
want to do here or

834
00:30:43,590 --> 00:30:41,679
return to space at some point thanks you

835
00:30:45,669 --> 00:30:43,600
know there's there are many beautiful

836
00:30:47,350 --> 00:30:45,679
places on earth you know the bahamas is

837
00:30:48,950 --> 00:30:47,360
one that always stands out is just

838
00:30:52,549 --> 00:30:48,960
striking the color of the water i've

839
00:30:56,870 --> 00:30:54,870
several times

840
00:30:58,630 --> 00:30:56,880
so if there's a place that i could go

841
00:30:59,350 --> 00:30:58,640
that i've never been

842
00:31:09,669 --> 00:30:59,360
the

843
00:31:11,509 --> 00:31:09,679
lakes of different sizes and colors and

844
00:31:12,549 --> 00:31:11,519
it just looks very remote and very

845
00:31:14,470 --> 00:31:12,559
beautiful

846
00:31:15,830 --> 00:31:14,480
and someplace that would be you know

847
00:31:17,990 --> 00:31:15,840
very uh

848
00:31:19,669 --> 00:31:18,000
looked like pretty hard to get to and so

849
00:31:22,070 --> 00:31:19,679
if i had to choose one place if someone

850
00:31:23,909 --> 00:31:22,080
said hey where if you know you could go

851
00:31:26,230 --> 00:31:23,919
one place right now where would it be it

852
00:31:28,389 --> 00:31:26,240
would be not right now i mean

853
00:31:30,310 --> 00:31:28,399
like maybe in six months where where

854
00:31:32,070 --> 00:31:30,320
would it be and i think it would be that

855
00:31:34,230 --> 00:31:32,080
area i got to look into it some more too

856
00:31:36,950 --> 00:31:34,240
to see you know exactly what these you

857
00:31:37,750 --> 00:31:36,960
know lakes are called even you know

858
00:31:40,070 --> 00:31:37,760
what

859
00:31:42,230 --> 00:31:40,080
country actually owns them and probably

860
00:31:45,430 --> 00:31:42,240
some of it is china but uh i'm not

861
00:31:49,509 --> 00:31:47,590
okay rachel crane from cnn you can go

862
00:31:52,310 --> 00:31:49,519
next

863
00:31:54,470 --> 00:31:52,320
welcome home scott uh quick question i

864
00:31:56,549 --> 00:31:54,480
was wondering while you were on board

865
00:31:58,870 --> 00:31:56,559
there were several cargo resupply

866
00:32:00,870 --> 00:31:58,880
missions that failed and i'm curious to

867
00:32:02,789 --> 00:32:00,880
know what went through your head when

868
00:32:04,630 --> 00:32:02,799
you heard about that and how that

869
00:32:06,470 --> 00:32:04,640
impacted the environment on board the

870
00:32:08,870 --> 00:32:06,480
international space station

871
00:32:11,029 --> 00:32:08,880
well we lost the first one the orbital

872
00:32:12,310 --> 00:32:11,039
well before i got there and then we lost

873
00:32:14,389 --> 00:32:12,320
the uh

874
00:32:16,789 --> 00:32:14,399
so we were also we we kind of started

875
00:32:18,630 --> 00:32:16,799
out at a little bit of a deficit uh

876
00:32:20,310 --> 00:32:18,640
right when i got on board for certain

877
00:32:22,549 --> 00:32:20,320
things and then when we lost the

878
00:32:25,590 --> 00:32:22,559
progress it affected us some more it

879
00:32:27,590 --> 00:32:25,600
affected the russians more than us but

880
00:32:29,430 --> 00:32:27,600
in the end it

881
00:32:32,230 --> 00:32:29,440
you know it'll affect all of us and that

882
00:32:33,590 --> 00:32:32,240
we you know we'll we'll share things if

883
00:32:34,870 --> 00:32:33,600
we have to

884
00:32:36,950 --> 00:32:34,880
um

885
00:32:39,430 --> 00:32:36,960
but

886
00:32:40,389 --> 00:32:39,440
you know that was one vehicle

887
00:32:42,470 --> 00:32:40,399
so

888
00:32:44,630 --> 00:32:42,480
you know we have a lot of redundancy we

889
00:32:46,789 --> 00:32:44,640
have other vehicles that can resupply us

890
00:32:48,789 --> 00:32:46,799
but then when when the spacex

891
00:32:51,590 --> 00:32:48,799
mishap happened

892
00:32:53,509 --> 00:32:51,600
then it was like okay well now if

893
00:32:54,549 --> 00:32:53,519
the next one really does have to work or

894
00:32:55,990 --> 00:32:54,559
we're going to be

895
00:32:58,310 --> 00:32:56,000
i'm sure we would have figured something

896
00:33:00,630 --> 00:32:58,320
out but you know there's a plan for us

897
00:33:02,149 --> 00:33:00,640
to go down to like reduced rations if

898
00:33:03,509 --> 00:33:02,159
you have to so we would all have gotten

899
00:33:05,350 --> 00:33:03,519
a little skinnier

900
00:33:07,590 --> 00:33:05,360
and you know we would have had to make

901
00:33:09,190 --> 00:33:07,600
certain things last longer

902
00:33:11,750 --> 00:33:09,200
i'm sure we would have figured it out

903
00:33:13,669 --> 00:33:11,760
nasa does a good very good job at rising

904
00:33:16,149 --> 00:33:13,679
to the occasion when we have to

905
00:33:17,509 --> 00:33:16,159
but uh you know if that htv wouldn't

906
00:33:19,909 --> 00:33:17,519
have worked we would have it would have

907
00:33:23,430 --> 00:33:19,919
really affected our our quality of life

908
00:33:29,830 --> 00:33:25,190
all right how about next we'll take

909
00:33:33,430 --> 00:33:31,909
hi scott welcome back um i was wondering

910
00:33:34,950 --> 00:33:33,440
if you could talk about any vision

911
00:33:36,389 --> 00:33:34,960
changes you experienced during this

912
00:33:38,630 --> 00:33:36,399
mission compared to your previous

913
00:33:41,430 --> 00:33:38,640
missions and whether you've noticed any

914
00:33:43,830 --> 00:33:41,440
difference since you've returned

915
00:33:45,830 --> 00:33:43,840
i i would say it was very consistent

916
00:33:46,789 --> 00:33:45,840
with my my last

917
00:33:49,830 --> 00:33:46,799
flight

918
00:33:52,310 --> 00:33:49,840
from a subjective point of view

919
00:33:54,549 --> 00:33:52,320
we're collecting more data this time on

920
00:33:55,830 --> 00:33:54,559
board so we'll have a little bit better

921
00:33:57,430 --> 00:33:55,840
insight to

922
00:33:59,509 --> 00:33:57,440
you know when those change changes

923
00:34:00,710 --> 00:33:59,519
occurred and and

924
00:34:02,870 --> 00:34:00,720
um

925
00:34:04,870 --> 00:34:02,880
you know how they were in flight versus

926
00:34:07,509 --> 00:34:04,880
on the ground but i don't

927
00:34:09,109 --> 00:34:07,519
think that at least subjectively it was

928
00:34:11,349 --> 00:34:09,119
much different than my

929
00:34:13,190 --> 00:34:11,359
my last experience which is kind of in

930
00:34:16,230 --> 00:34:13,200
the beginning you noticed some changes

931
00:34:19,190 --> 00:34:16,240
and then it kind of levels off um and in

932
00:34:22,790 --> 00:34:19,200
this case kind of stayed the same way

933
00:34:25,909 --> 00:34:24,149
okay again if you are on the phone

934
00:34:32,470 --> 00:34:25,919
bridge and have a question please press

935
00:34:37,270 --> 00:34:34,710
hey scott thanks for taking my question

936
00:34:39,510 --> 00:34:37,280
um i'm curious why were you so eager to

937
00:34:40,790 --> 00:34:39,520
jump in the pool and live up to your

938
00:34:43,109 --> 00:34:40,800
expectations

939
00:34:45,190 --> 00:34:43,119
and then um more seriously uh i'm

940
00:34:47,909 --> 00:34:45,200
wondering what you think is the most

941
00:34:51,109 --> 00:34:47,919
unexpected difference you encountered

942
00:34:53,669 --> 00:34:51,119
between the six months versus the year

943
00:34:55,430 --> 00:34:53,679
um yeah the reason i was eager to jump

944
00:34:57,910 --> 00:34:55,440
in the pool is because even though i

945
00:34:59,910 --> 00:34:57,920
took a shower in canada i hadn't had

946
00:35:03,030 --> 00:34:59,920
running water in

947
00:35:05,030 --> 00:35:03,040
340 days and it's something you really

948
00:35:07,829 --> 00:35:05,040
miss actually you know my cosmonaut

949
00:35:09,990 --> 00:35:07,839
colleague misha kornienko that's one of

950
00:35:13,270 --> 00:35:10,000
the things he always cited as what he

951
00:35:19,109 --> 00:35:13,280
wanted to do too is go swimming get

952
00:35:23,270 --> 00:35:21,910
we we make do with not having a shower

953
00:35:25,030 --> 00:35:23,280
on board and it's not like you feel

954
00:35:28,829 --> 00:35:25,040
dirty but you definitely feel like you

955
00:35:31,190 --> 00:35:28,839
would like to jump in a pool so i did

956
00:35:32,950 --> 00:35:31,200
um it's nice that it was in texas yeah

957
00:35:35,910 --> 00:35:32,960
what was the other question uh can you

958
00:35:37,190 --> 00:35:35,920
repeat the second part of your question

959
00:35:39,670 --> 00:35:37,200
yeah um

960
00:35:41,910 --> 00:35:39,680
what was the most unexpected difference

961
00:35:44,150 --> 00:35:41,920
you encountered between your six months

962
00:35:45,829 --> 00:35:44,160
fifth and then the year either while

963
00:35:47,349 --> 00:35:45,839
you're up there or

964
00:35:49,589 --> 00:35:47,359
upon returning something that you

965
00:35:55,430 --> 00:35:49,599
weren't anticipating that the extra six

966
00:35:59,750 --> 00:35:57,750
you know when six months when you get

967
00:36:01,670 --> 00:35:59,760
there you can kind of see the end

968
00:36:04,390 --> 00:36:01,680
you know you think okay i launched in

969
00:36:06,630 --> 00:36:04,400
october i'm coming back in march

970
00:36:08,550 --> 00:36:06,640
i can envision getting there

971
00:36:10,230 --> 00:36:08,560
but when you launch in march and you're

972
00:36:12,630 --> 00:36:10,240
thinking about coming back

973
00:36:15,349 --> 00:36:12,640
the next march it is not something that

974
00:36:17,670 --> 00:36:15,359
you can really comprehend i remember

975
00:36:19,430 --> 00:36:17,680
because i think the perfect duration for

976
00:36:20,550 --> 00:36:19,440
a space flight is somewhere on the order

977
00:36:22,790 --> 00:36:20,560
of you know

978
00:36:24,150 --> 00:36:22,800
two and a half to three months and when

979
00:36:25,990 --> 00:36:24,160
you get to two and a half to three

980
00:36:27,510 --> 00:36:26,000
months you think i've really been here

981
00:36:29,910 --> 00:36:27,520
for a long time

982
00:36:31,270 --> 00:36:29,920
and know that you have you know nine

983
00:36:33,270 --> 00:36:31,280
months to go

984
00:36:35,030 --> 00:36:33,280
that's kind of hard to

985
00:36:38,310 --> 00:36:35,040
kind of get your head around

986
00:36:41,750 --> 00:36:38,320
as far as coming back

987
00:36:42,950 --> 00:36:41,760
you know i i'm kind of surprised how i

988
00:36:45,829 --> 00:36:42,960
do feel

989
00:36:48,790 --> 00:36:45,839
different physically than the last time

990
00:36:52,150 --> 00:36:48,800
with regards to like muscle soreness and

991
00:36:54,470 --> 00:36:52,160
and uh and joint pain and then it's the

992
00:36:56,710 --> 00:36:54,480
skin issue so

993
00:36:58,550 --> 00:36:56,720
that was something that was kind of

994
00:37:00,069 --> 00:36:58,560
unexpected for me i figured that

995
00:37:02,390 --> 00:37:00,079
probably be it'd be probably a little

996
00:37:05,430 --> 00:37:02,400
bit different but it's more than just a

997
00:37:13,270 --> 00:37:09,990
okay next up anne ball from voa news

998
00:37:16,150 --> 00:37:13,280
welcome back scott um i'm wondering what

999
00:37:18,150 --> 00:37:16,160
it is that you are going to miss about

1000
00:37:19,670 --> 00:37:18,160
being in space is there anything you're

1001
00:37:22,950 --> 00:37:19,680
really going to miss about being up

1002
00:37:26,150 --> 00:37:22,960
there absolutely um

1003
00:37:28,470 --> 00:37:26,160
uh many things uh i think the most

1004
00:37:30,069 --> 00:37:28,480
important or the most significant one is

1005
00:37:32,310 --> 00:37:30,079
the thing i like about it the most and

1006
00:37:34,950 --> 00:37:32,320
that is something that

1007
00:37:37,910 --> 00:37:34,960
doing this job is is something that's

1008
00:37:39,829 --> 00:37:37,920
very very challenging very difficult

1009
00:37:41,829 --> 00:37:39,839
um

1010
00:37:44,550 --> 00:37:41,839
and then you know working hard at it and

1011
00:37:47,190 --> 00:37:44,560
then just being you know fulfilled by by

1012
00:37:49,670 --> 00:37:47,200
your success and you can find that and

1013
00:37:51,829 --> 00:37:49,680
uh if i never fly in space again

1014
00:37:54,230 --> 00:37:51,839
i'll find that in other areas of my life

1015
00:37:55,910 --> 00:37:54,240
but not in this kind of way where the

1016
00:37:58,630 --> 00:37:55,920
implications of you

1017
00:37:59,910 --> 00:37:58,640
you know messing things up are so severe

1018
00:38:03,109 --> 00:37:59,920
that

1019
00:38:04,550 --> 00:38:03,119
in my case more rewarding is kind of

1020
00:38:06,069 --> 00:38:04,560
like you know why you

1021
00:38:07,589 --> 00:38:06,079
you know why i wanted to be a pilot in

1022
00:38:09,190 --> 00:38:07,599
the navy and land on the aircraft

1023
00:38:10,870 --> 00:38:09,200
carrier it's not because i thought

1024
00:38:13,030 --> 00:38:10,880
flying on there landing on the aircraft

1025
00:38:13,910 --> 00:38:13,040
carrier would be fun it's because

1026
00:38:16,710 --> 00:38:13,920
i knew

1027
00:38:18,870 --> 00:38:16,720
that there was it was hard and there was

1028
00:38:21,670 --> 00:38:18,880
risk and

1029
00:38:25,030 --> 00:38:21,680
and it was important and thereby for me

1030
00:38:29,349 --> 00:38:26,870
all right ken chang from the new york

1031
00:38:31,430 --> 00:38:29,359
times next

1032
00:38:32,950 --> 00:38:31,440
hi thank you for taking my question

1033
00:38:35,430 --> 00:38:32,960
how's this warning are you done with

1034
00:38:36,390 --> 00:38:35,440
space now or are you hoping to go back

1035
00:38:38,710 --> 00:38:36,400
up

1036
00:38:41,270 --> 00:38:38,720
i'll never be done with space

1037
00:38:44,870 --> 00:38:41,280
i will always be involved

1038
00:38:47,109 --> 00:38:44,880
whether i fly in space again

1039
00:38:49,589 --> 00:38:47,119
you know i you know even my brother has

1040
00:38:51,270 --> 00:38:49,599
been retired for a bunch of years he

1041
00:38:53,190 --> 00:38:51,280
still hasn't given up the idea that he's

1042
00:38:54,790 --> 00:38:53,200
gonna fly in space again

1043
00:38:56,950 --> 00:38:54,800
so

1044
00:38:59,270 --> 00:38:56,960
if i don't do it with nasa i doubt i

1045
00:39:01,990 --> 00:38:59,280
would fly again with with nasa having

1046
00:39:03,270 --> 00:39:02,000
you know have the most time

1047
00:39:06,310 --> 00:39:03,280
in uh

1048
00:39:08,150 --> 00:39:06,320
you know in space by any american i mean

1049
00:39:10,150 --> 00:39:08,160
it we have so many talented people in

1050
00:39:12,150 --> 00:39:10,160
our office there's no reason to fly me

1051
00:39:15,430 --> 00:39:12,160
again they could fly somebody else that

1052
00:39:17,829 --> 00:39:15,440
hasn't had as much opportunity

1053
00:39:19,030 --> 00:39:17,839
to do that and

1054
00:39:20,870 --> 00:39:19,040
so

1055
00:39:23,349 --> 00:39:20,880
but i i don't think i would ever say i'm

1056
00:39:24,630 --> 00:39:23,359
i'm absolutely a hundred percent done

1057
00:39:26,950 --> 00:39:24,640
because i think there's a lot of

1058
00:39:28,790 --> 00:39:26,960
exciting possibilities out there and you

1059
00:39:31,589 --> 00:39:28,800
know maybe in the commercial

1060
00:39:33,829 --> 00:39:31,599
aspect certainly

1061
00:39:35,990 --> 00:39:33,839
and you know they might need a guy like

1062
00:39:38,390 --> 00:39:36,000
me someday or someone else or i don't

1063
00:39:39,589 --> 00:39:38,400
know maybe maybe in the next 20 years

1064
00:39:40,550 --> 00:39:39,599
you'll be able to just buy a cheap

1065
00:39:43,670 --> 00:39:40,560
ticket

1066
00:39:48,470 --> 00:39:43,680
go for a little visit

1067
00:39:52,069 --> 00:39:51,030
hi thank you for taking my question um

1068
00:39:54,310 --> 00:39:52,079
ma

1069
00:39:56,069 --> 00:39:54,320
i was wondering that of course

1070
00:39:58,230 --> 00:39:56,079
nasa and the scientific world have

1071
00:40:00,710 --> 00:39:58,240
learned a lot about the experience but

1072
00:40:03,589 --> 00:40:00,720
what personally have you learned scott

1073
00:40:07,670 --> 00:40:05,430
nasa's learned a lot from the mission

1074
00:40:09,910 --> 00:40:07,680
but what have you learned personally

1075
00:40:13,190 --> 00:40:09,920
um what have i learned personally about

1076
00:40:15,190 --> 00:40:13,200
spending um a year in space

1077
00:40:17,109 --> 00:40:15,200
um

1078
00:40:18,710 --> 00:40:17,119
i was amazed and i was thinking about

1079
00:40:20,630 --> 00:40:18,720
this when i was backing away in the

1080
00:40:23,510 --> 00:40:20,640
soyuz is just you know what an

1081
00:40:25,589 --> 00:40:23,520
incredible achievement that

1082
00:40:26,790 --> 00:40:25,599
this space station is in this this

1083
00:40:29,510 --> 00:40:26,800
program is

1084
00:40:31,349 --> 00:40:29,520
you know how hard it is to build

1085
00:40:33,589 --> 00:40:31,359
something like that and operate it for

1086
00:40:35,349 --> 00:40:33,599
the last 15 years and

1087
00:40:38,470 --> 00:40:35,359
and what we

1088
00:40:41,190 --> 00:40:38,480
how we benefit from it by doing these

1089
00:40:43,430 --> 00:40:41,200
very very difficult things technically

1090
00:40:46,150 --> 00:40:43,440
and operationally challenging things and

1091
00:40:48,069 --> 00:40:46,160
it's uh you know that's the main thing

1092
00:40:50,470 --> 00:40:48,079
i kind of knew that you know going into

1093
00:40:53,670 --> 00:40:50,480
it but just experiencing it every day

1094
00:40:56,069 --> 00:40:53,680
for 340 days really you know hit home

1095
00:40:58,230 --> 00:40:56,079
for me um

1096
00:41:00,950 --> 00:40:58,240
just how you know if we put our mind to

1097
00:41:03,990 --> 00:41:00,960
it we can achieve things that

1098
00:41:06,150 --> 00:41:04,000
you know are it would seem impossible

1099
00:41:08,069 --> 00:41:06,160
like if you would have said to somebody

1100
00:41:09,589 --> 00:41:08,079
you know 30 years from now hey there's a

1101
00:41:11,829 --> 00:41:09,599
picture of the space station we're going

1102
00:41:12,790 --> 00:41:11,839
to build and keep it manned for 15 years

1103
00:41:15,510 --> 00:41:12,800
and do

1104
00:41:17,589 --> 00:41:15,520
all this science and other operations on

1105
00:41:18,550 --> 00:41:17,599
people would have been like crazy you

1106
00:41:21,910 --> 00:41:18,560
know

1107
00:41:23,750 --> 00:41:21,920
that's not i think it's a million pounds

1108
00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:23,760
the size of a football field you know

1109
00:41:27,990 --> 00:41:26,160
the internal volume of some say a six

1110
00:41:29,589 --> 00:41:28,000
bedroom house with the

1111
00:41:32,069 --> 00:41:29,599
you know there's life support systems

1112
00:41:35,430 --> 00:41:32,079
that turn our our urine into water the

1113
00:41:36,870 --> 00:41:35,440
water into oxygen um

1114
00:41:39,589 --> 00:41:36,880
you know we drink the water it's

1115
00:41:42,550 --> 00:41:39,599
practically a closed loop system

1116
00:41:43,750 --> 00:41:42,560
using only the power from the sun

1117
00:41:45,190 --> 00:41:43,760
it's

1118
00:41:47,109 --> 00:41:45,200
just an incredible

1119
00:41:49,109 --> 00:41:47,119
incredible achievement that i think

1120
00:41:51,030 --> 00:41:49,119
everyone involved in it you know

1121
00:41:55,670 --> 00:41:51,040
including the people that pay for it the

1122
00:42:01,270 --> 00:41:57,990
okay how about uh michelle fitzsimmons

1123
00:42:06,790 --> 00:42:03,910
hi commander kelly welcome back um i was

1124
00:42:09,829 --> 00:42:06,800
wondering if there is uh an easy cost

1125
00:42:11,510 --> 00:42:09,839
for ability we have on earth that we

1126
00:42:14,790 --> 00:42:11,520
kind of take for granted you know if we

1127
00:42:17,030 --> 00:42:14,800
were to be up in zero g and that becomes

1128
00:42:19,670 --> 00:42:17,040
way more difficult um and then also on

1129
00:42:21,910 --> 00:42:19,680
the the kind of commercial space uh

1130
00:42:22,790 --> 00:42:21,920
flight front do you think kind of normal

1131
00:42:24,630 --> 00:42:22,800
people

1132
00:42:26,230 --> 00:42:24,640
should be able to go up into space and

1133
00:42:28,870 --> 00:42:26,240
you know whether they have

1134
00:42:30,710 --> 00:42:28,880
uh the fortitude and an ability to

1135
00:42:31,670 --> 00:42:30,720
experience what it's like up there thank

1136
00:42:36,790 --> 00:42:31,680
you

1137
00:42:39,349 --> 00:42:36,800
couldn't quite make that out

1138
00:42:41,670 --> 00:42:39,359
sure uh just to save

1139
00:42:42,630 --> 00:42:41,680
an easy task here on earth or an ability

1140
00:42:44,790 --> 00:42:42,640
we have

1141
00:42:45,910 --> 00:42:44,800
that becomes more difficult um

1142
00:42:48,470 --> 00:42:45,920
you know we would be surprised how

1143
00:42:49,750 --> 00:42:48,480
difficult it is up in up in space an

1144
00:42:51,990 --> 00:42:49,760
easy task here on earth it's more

1145
00:42:53,030 --> 00:42:52,000
difficult in space

1146
00:42:55,589 --> 00:42:53,040
oh

1147
00:42:57,589 --> 00:42:55,599
just about everything is is easier here

1148
00:43:00,069 --> 00:42:57,599
except there are a couple of things that

1149
00:43:01,910 --> 00:43:00,079
are easier in space one is moving heart

1150
00:43:03,750 --> 00:43:01,920
large objects around because they don't

1151
00:43:05,750 --> 00:43:03,760
have any weight the other thing it would

1152
00:43:07,990 --> 00:43:05,760
be like getting behind your tv to

1153
00:43:10,870 --> 00:43:08,000
connect the vcr up i mean because you

1154
00:43:12,550 --> 00:43:10,880
can just float in every any orientation

1155
00:43:14,309 --> 00:43:12,560
everything else is more difficult in

1156
00:43:15,349 --> 00:43:14,319
space because you can't put anything

1157
00:43:17,349 --> 00:43:15,359
down

1158
00:43:19,270 --> 00:43:17,359
you have to either velcro stick it in

1159
00:43:21,190 --> 00:43:19,280
your pocket or hold it in your hand or

1160
00:43:22,390 --> 00:43:21,200
let it float away in which case it's

1161
00:43:23,910 --> 00:43:22,400
probably going to float away and you're

1162
00:43:26,230 --> 00:43:23,920
never going to see it again

1163
00:43:27,109 --> 00:43:26,240
so yeah just about everything else is

1164
00:43:28,309 --> 00:43:27,119
more

1165
00:43:30,230 --> 00:43:28,319
difficult

1166
00:43:31,349 --> 00:43:30,240
than the second part um do you think

1167
00:43:33,270 --> 00:43:31,359
normal people should be able to go to

1168
00:43:35,589 --> 00:43:33,280
space i think everyone should be able to

1169
00:43:37,589 --> 00:43:35,599
go to space i mean there's it's going to

1170
00:43:38,470 --> 00:43:37,599
depend on the person and what kind of

1171
00:43:41,270 --> 00:43:38,480
you know

1172
00:43:43,270 --> 00:43:41,280
experience they would want um

1173
00:43:45,910 --> 00:43:43,280
so it'd be great i think to have a

1174
00:43:48,790 --> 00:43:45,920
variety of ways to

1175
00:43:51,430 --> 00:43:48,800
get to space or near space maybe for the

1176
00:43:53,510 --> 00:43:51,440
view you can get a pretty

1177
00:43:56,630 --> 00:43:53,520
spectacular view with not going all the

1178
00:43:57,829 --> 00:43:56,640
way to the edge of space but or you know

1179
00:43:59,829 --> 00:43:57,839
above

1180
00:44:02,309 --> 00:43:59,839
the the limit but it'd be great if there

1181
00:44:04,550 --> 00:44:02,319
were a bunch of different uh

1182
00:44:05,829 --> 00:44:04,560
experiences that people could afford and

1183
00:44:06,950 --> 00:44:05,839
that were safe and i'm sure we're going

1184
00:44:08,710 --> 00:44:06,960
to see that

1185
00:44:10,710 --> 00:44:08,720
you know sometime hopefully in the not

1186
00:44:11,829 --> 00:44:10,720
too distant future

1187
00:44:14,390 --> 00:44:11,839
all right

1188
00:44:15,589 --> 00:44:14,400
okay i think tracy watson has a

1189
00:44:20,630 --> 00:44:15,599
follow-up question and we'll come back

1190
00:44:24,630 --> 00:44:22,550
yeah thank you uh can you tell me

1191
00:44:26,390 --> 00:44:24,640
whether about the workflow and how you

1192
00:44:28,710 --> 00:44:26,400
manage that whether you had to sometimes

1193
00:44:29,510 --> 00:44:28,720
push back against um the ground on how

1194
00:44:31,750 --> 00:44:29,520
much

1195
00:44:34,390 --> 00:44:31,760
they wanted you to do and how you

1196
00:44:36,870 --> 00:44:34,400
adjusted it to a year in space versus

1197
00:44:39,190 --> 00:44:36,880
six months in space thanks yeah that's a

1198
00:44:41,670 --> 00:44:39,200
very good question um

1199
00:44:43,510 --> 00:44:41,680
in my case i've always had a great

1200
00:44:46,230 --> 00:44:43,520
working relationship with the ground

1201
00:44:49,109 --> 00:44:46,240
with and been very open with with them

1202
00:44:51,430 --> 00:44:49,119
and you know it's a team effort so

1203
00:44:53,750 --> 00:44:51,440
um you know there are priorities and

1204
00:44:55,750 --> 00:44:53,760
there are you know higher priorities and

1205
00:44:57,510 --> 00:44:55,760
you try to get the higher stuff done and

1206
00:44:59,750 --> 00:44:57,520
you try you know with the help of our

1207
00:45:02,230 --> 00:44:59,760
flight surgeons manage our fatigue level

1208
00:45:04,390 --> 00:45:02,240
and we're all kind of a big team doing

1209
00:45:06,630 --> 00:45:04,400
that and in my experience it's always

1210
00:45:08,950 --> 00:45:06,640
worked it's always worked great

1211
00:45:10,870 --> 00:45:08,960
um

1212
00:45:12,710 --> 00:45:10,880
i can't maybe something happened to my

1213
00:45:13,829 --> 00:45:12,720
brain i can't ever remember the second

1214
00:45:18,790 --> 00:45:13,839
question

1215
00:45:21,829 --> 00:45:20,550
okay we'll come back in uh to the room

1216
00:45:23,349 --> 00:45:21,839
here if we get a chance we'll see if

1217
00:45:25,030 --> 00:45:23,359
tracy has another one um let's start

1218
00:45:27,030 --> 00:45:25,040
with eric berger

1219
00:45:28,390 --> 00:45:27,040
hey again scott um

1220
00:45:30,150 --> 00:45:28,400
having spent a year in space thinking

1221
00:45:31,990 --> 00:45:30,160
about going to mars

1222
00:45:33,670 --> 00:45:32,000
there's some debate about whether you

1223
00:45:34,870 --> 00:45:33,680
know artificial gravity would be is

1224
00:45:37,030 --> 00:45:34,880
worth the trouble

1225
00:45:38,550 --> 00:45:37,040
um and having spent now almost a year in

1226
00:45:40,950 --> 00:45:38,560
microgravity

1227
00:45:43,270 --> 00:45:40,960
how do you feel i mean you probably have

1228
00:45:45,589 --> 00:45:43,280
the best you know platform to address

1229
00:45:48,790 --> 00:45:45,599
that question

1230
00:45:50,630 --> 00:45:48,800
so art of artificial gravity solves

1231
00:45:52,870 --> 00:45:50,640
problems with um

1232
00:45:54,390 --> 00:45:52,880
making your work easier where you don't

1233
00:45:55,990 --> 00:45:54,400
have to deal with all the stuff that

1234
00:45:57,589 --> 00:45:56,000
floats

1235
00:45:59,670 --> 00:45:57,599
i think it probably helps in certain

1236
00:46:02,710 --> 00:45:59,680
systems and how they function

1237
00:46:04,710 --> 00:46:02,720
certainly will help in your physiology

1238
00:46:07,190 --> 00:46:04,720
if it's though i i think it depends on

1239
00:46:09,670 --> 00:46:07,200
how you do it if it's if it's like you

1240
00:46:12,790 --> 00:46:09,680
know 2001 where you have this big

1241
00:46:15,510 --> 00:46:12,800
orb rotating wheel that's much different

1242
00:46:16,790 --> 00:46:15,520
than if you had i think a vehicle that

1243
00:46:19,750 --> 00:46:16,800
you know

1244
00:46:20,870 --> 00:46:19,760
had varying levels of of gravity i don't

1245
00:46:22,870 --> 00:46:20,880
know that

1246
00:46:24,630 --> 00:46:22,880
if if you had

1247
00:46:26,230 --> 00:46:24,640
you know earth's gravity on one side

1248
00:46:29,030 --> 00:46:26,240
nurse gravity on the other and then you

1249
00:46:31,270 --> 00:46:29,040
lived in between all the time how your

1250
00:46:33,430 --> 00:46:31,280
body would deal with that so

1251
00:46:35,910 --> 00:46:33,440
i think it's a balance between

1252
00:46:37,750 --> 00:46:35,920
you know having all this maybe wasted

1253
00:46:39,190 --> 00:46:37,760
space you couldn't use

1254
00:46:42,069 --> 00:46:39,200
and

1255
00:46:44,069 --> 00:46:42,079
versus what what the benefits would be

1256
00:46:45,910 --> 00:46:44,079
or if you could you know make the

1257
00:46:47,910 --> 00:46:45,920
science fiction kind of vehicle then

1258
00:46:49,829 --> 00:46:47,920
maybe that's the way to go i don't i

1259
00:46:52,630 --> 00:46:49,839
don't know how you know technically

1260
00:46:54,790 --> 00:46:52,640
feasible that is right now

1261
00:46:56,870 --> 00:46:54,800
but i tell you what you know i i am a

1262
00:46:59,349 --> 00:46:56,880
big believer if we can

1263
00:47:01,829 --> 00:46:59,359
if we can dream something and if we can

1264
00:47:02,550 --> 00:47:01,839
put our minds to it we can we can do it

1265
00:47:05,109 --> 00:47:02,560
so

1266
00:47:08,309 --> 00:47:05,119
i think it's it's uh i would never rule

1267
00:47:13,510 --> 00:47:10,390
okay let's come over here to mark

1268
00:47:15,109 --> 00:47:13,520
thanks mark radius i mean i have a

1269
00:47:18,230 --> 00:47:15,119
related question

1270
00:47:20,069 --> 00:47:18,240
nasa's looking at in-space habitat

1271
00:47:22,710 --> 00:47:20,079
um do you think you might have some good

1272
00:47:32,150 --> 00:47:22,720
suggestions uh for them to consider on

1273
00:47:36,870 --> 00:47:33,829
actually i do i've actually thought when

1274
00:47:39,109 --> 00:47:36,880
i saw that on the news actually that

1275
00:47:41,430 --> 00:47:39,119
there was a contract given

1276
00:47:42,870 --> 00:47:41,440
i don't even know what company or what

1277
00:47:45,190 --> 00:47:42,880
what the details were but there was some

1278
00:47:46,710 --> 00:47:45,200
money dedicated to that i thought i

1279
00:47:49,670 --> 00:47:46,720
think i'd be great to help with that

1280
00:47:53,430 --> 00:47:49,680
kind of project and i would love to

1281
00:47:55,589 --> 00:47:53,440
be involved in something like that

1282
00:47:57,190 --> 00:47:55,599
in terms of sort of comfort and

1283
00:47:58,950 --> 00:47:57,200
functionality that you think would be

1284
00:48:00,309 --> 00:47:58,960
important

1285
00:48:01,510 --> 00:48:00,319
absolutely

1286
00:48:03,589 --> 00:48:01,520
you know i've talked about the crew

1287
00:48:05,510 --> 00:48:03,599
quarters certainly

1288
00:48:07,510 --> 00:48:05,520
like noise abatement on our exercise

1289
00:48:10,309 --> 00:48:07,520
equipment

1290
00:48:12,549 --> 00:48:10,319
noise abatement on our other facilities

1291
00:48:15,030 --> 00:48:12,559
like the you know the bathroom when

1292
00:48:16,549 --> 00:48:15,040
you're going to be living in one

1293
00:48:17,750 --> 00:48:16,559
tiny area

1294
00:48:19,349 --> 00:48:17,760
and how you

1295
00:48:21,430 --> 00:48:19,359
make that work

1296
00:48:23,750 --> 00:48:21,440
you know i think we should look at other

1297
00:48:25,589 --> 00:48:23,760
other things you know if our exercise

1298
00:48:28,069 --> 00:48:25,599
equipment is very good but it's also

1299
00:48:30,309 --> 00:48:28,079
very heavy and takes up a lot of room

1300
00:48:31,910 --> 00:48:30,319
you know maybe there's other ways we can

1301
00:48:33,750 --> 00:48:31,920
get the same

1302
00:48:37,670 --> 00:48:33,760
effect without the same kind of

1303
00:48:40,790 --> 00:48:38,870
in a

1304
00:48:42,309 --> 00:48:40,800
medical way like we were talking you

1305
00:48:43,510 --> 00:48:42,319
know one of the issues we have with

1306
00:48:45,670 --> 00:48:43,520
coming back

1307
00:48:48,309 --> 00:48:45,680
and why you feel the way you do i think

1308
00:48:49,990 --> 00:48:48,319
some people feel the way that they do is

1309
00:48:51,430 --> 00:48:50,000
is because they've lost a lot of their

1310
00:48:53,510 --> 00:48:51,440
blood volume

1311
00:48:55,670 --> 00:48:53,520
i mean you could look at you know giving

1312
00:48:58,710 --> 00:48:55,680
that back to the person when they when

1313
00:49:00,950 --> 00:48:58,720
they land potentially or something else

1314
00:49:02,549 --> 00:49:00,960
um you know i got an iv when i was

1315
00:49:04,630 --> 00:49:02,559
coming back

1316
00:49:07,109 --> 00:49:04,640
that helped a little bit but just kind

1317
00:49:08,710 --> 00:49:07,119
of more thinking out outside of the box

1318
00:49:11,030 --> 00:49:08,720
in that kind of way

1319
00:49:13,430 --> 00:49:11,040
i think is something that

1320
00:49:14,710 --> 00:49:13,440
we should start considering more

1321
00:49:16,069 --> 00:49:14,720
okay

1322
00:49:17,910 --> 00:49:16,079
if you don't mind i've got two but the

1323
00:49:19,829 --> 00:49:17,920
first one is i was fascinated in your

1324
00:49:22,150 --> 00:49:19,839
documentary that ran on pbs which i

1325
00:49:24,710 --> 00:49:22,160
thought was excellent about the smell of

1326
00:49:26,870 --> 00:49:24,720
space which i've never heard of before

1327
00:49:29,589 --> 00:49:26,880
um so having lived with that and the

1328
00:49:31,750 --> 00:49:29,599
smell of the iss for the last year when

1329
00:49:33,750 --> 00:49:31,760
you when they opened up the hatch in

1330
00:49:35,990 --> 00:49:33,760
kazakhstan and you were able to breathe

1331
00:49:38,710 --> 00:49:36,000
that air what was that like can you

1332
00:49:40,470 --> 00:49:38,720
describe it so i actually said to uh

1333
00:49:42,870 --> 00:49:40,480
well first the air was refreshing

1334
00:49:46,309 --> 00:49:42,880
because it was cool and it was

1335
00:49:49,349 --> 00:49:46,319
different than the air i had experienced

1336
00:49:50,870 --> 00:49:49,359
for the last 340 days so in that way it

1337
00:49:52,230 --> 00:49:50,880
was refreshing but as soon as i got in

1338
00:49:53,990 --> 00:49:52,240
the chair i don't know if i said to

1339
00:49:56,470 --> 00:49:54,000
steve or someone else that was there i

1340
00:49:59,990 --> 00:49:56,480
said what is it smells like a fragrance

1341
00:50:03,109 --> 00:50:00,000
like something like a plant was blooming

1342
00:50:07,510 --> 00:50:03,119
um in that area and you know i'd only

1343
00:50:09,510 --> 00:50:07,520
been to the landing site twice before

1344
00:50:11,270 --> 00:50:09,520
in with the soyuz the first time i was

1345
00:50:13,030 --> 00:50:11,280
in it and i guess i didn't notice this

1346
00:50:14,309 --> 00:50:13,040
steve's been there a lot more times than

1347
00:50:16,710 --> 00:50:14,319
i have and he said that's the smell of

1348
00:50:17,829 --> 00:50:16,720
the the burning uh

1349
00:50:21,510 --> 00:50:17,839
soyuz

1350
00:50:25,030 --> 00:50:21,520
it has kind of a sweet

1351
00:50:27,270 --> 00:50:25,040
uh how would you describe

1352
00:50:29,510 --> 00:50:27,280
it's kind of a sweet smell to it does it

1353
00:50:31,270 --> 00:50:29,520
feel like your senses are suddenly alive

1354
00:50:34,230 --> 00:50:31,280
when you were able to breathe oh it's

1355
00:50:35,670 --> 00:50:34,240
it's great yeah absolutely

1356
00:50:37,349 --> 00:50:35,680
my second question pardon me but you

1357
00:50:41,270 --> 00:50:37,359
know you're you'll now go down and you

1358
00:50:43,030 --> 00:50:41,280
are have you had gone down holding two

1359
00:50:45,349 --> 00:50:43,040
nasa records

1360
00:50:46,790 --> 00:50:45,359
you'll go down in american space history

1361
00:50:49,190 --> 00:50:46,800
and people will read about you for the

1362
00:50:51,589 --> 00:50:49,200
next several decades

1363
00:50:53,510 --> 00:50:51,599
what does it feel like to be the guy who

1364
00:50:55,670 --> 00:50:53,520
has set these records to be

1365
00:50:57,349 --> 00:50:55,680
one of america's space heroes i'll tell

1366
00:50:59,430 --> 00:50:57,359
you what these these records are made to

1367
00:51:01,109 --> 00:50:59,440
be broken and there's this guy jeff

1368
00:51:03,109 --> 00:51:01,119
williams that's going to launch here in

1369
00:51:05,270 --> 00:51:03,119
the next couple next couple of weeks

1370
00:51:06,309 --> 00:51:05,280
he's going to break my number of days

1371
00:51:08,549 --> 00:51:06,319
record

1372
00:51:10,390 --> 00:51:08,559
not by i'm not sure by how much but

1373
00:51:13,190 --> 00:51:10,400
total number of days in space for an

1374
00:51:15,750 --> 00:51:13,200
american he'll break it so which is

1375
00:51:17,589 --> 00:51:15,760
great i mean i'm a big believer in

1376
00:51:19,349 --> 00:51:17,599
pushing the envelope on this kind of

1377
00:51:21,750 --> 00:51:19,359
stuff i don't know when

1378
00:51:23,910 --> 00:51:21,760
when someone will have more than 340

1379
00:51:26,470 --> 00:51:23,920
days in space uh

1380
00:51:27,990 --> 00:51:26,480
next but hopefully it won't be too long

1381
00:51:29,430 --> 00:51:28,000
you know because that's

1382
00:51:31,190 --> 00:51:29,440
you know that

1383
00:51:33,910 --> 00:51:31,200
you know pushing the envelope is what

1384
00:51:36,230 --> 00:51:33,920
makes our you know society progress so

1385
00:51:37,510 --> 00:51:36,240
it's uh i don't i don't have

1386
00:51:39,349 --> 00:51:37,520
i don't know i definitely don't have an

1387
00:51:41,990 --> 00:51:39,359
issue with it i'm a big proponent of

1388
00:51:43,670 --> 00:51:42,000
that and how do i feel about

1389
00:51:45,910 --> 00:51:43,680
these kind of things i just it's you

1390
00:51:49,190 --> 00:51:45,920
know it just i'm i'm just privileged to

1391
00:51:51,589 --> 00:51:50,470
okay we'll take a couple of questions

1392
00:51:53,589 --> 00:51:51,599
here in the room and then see if we can

1393
00:51:54,630 --> 00:51:53,599
get maybe two more from social media so

1394
00:51:56,390 --> 00:51:54,640
start here

1395
00:51:58,630 --> 00:51:56,400
but i think what tom's trying to say and

1396
00:52:00,630 --> 00:51:58,640
it's what we're asking is that you you

1397
00:52:02,710 --> 00:52:00,640
have rekindled

1398
00:52:04,790 --> 00:52:02,720
the mission with you as the center of it

1399
00:52:09,030 --> 00:52:04,800
has rekindled this interest in states we

1400
00:52:13,030 --> 00:52:11,190
what do you take away from that

1401
00:52:14,630 --> 00:52:13,040
for yourself for the program for the

1402
00:52:17,589 --> 00:52:14,640
country

1403
00:52:19,829 --> 00:52:17,599
um well i didn't know that you know i

1404
00:52:22,230 --> 00:52:19,839
maybe i'm somewhat insulated from some

1405
00:52:26,309 --> 00:52:22,240
of this the media surrounding this this

1406
00:52:33,750 --> 00:52:29,190
i've been

1407
00:52:37,030 --> 00:52:33,760
presidential primaries for the last nine

1408
00:52:40,710 --> 00:52:38,950
so uh

1409
00:52:42,790 --> 00:52:40,720
so what do i

1410
00:52:44,390 --> 00:52:42,800
i i guess it's great you know it's i

1411
00:52:46,950 --> 00:52:44,400
think space is important i think it's

1412
00:52:48,390 --> 00:52:46,960
our future it it helps our economy grow

1413
00:52:51,750 --> 00:52:48,400
it improves

1414
00:52:54,710 --> 00:52:53,030
you know i think there are things we're

1415
00:52:57,990 --> 00:52:54,720
going to discover about our experience

1416
00:52:59,510 --> 00:52:58,000
in space in the space station that we

1417
00:53:01,510 --> 00:52:59,520
you know we don't even know now it's

1418
00:53:03,430 --> 00:53:01,520
kind of like you know when the guys were

1419
00:53:05,030 --> 00:53:03,440
walking on the moon they didn't you were

1420
00:53:07,109 --> 00:53:05,040
trying to develop you know more advanced

1421
00:53:09,430 --> 00:53:07,119
computers and technologies that you know

1422
00:53:11,990 --> 00:53:09,440
they never they never imagined that uh

1423
00:53:13,190 --> 00:53:12,000
you know how important that stuff would

1424
00:53:15,109 --> 00:53:13,200
be to us

1425
00:53:17,430 --> 00:53:15,119
you know not too long in the in the

1426
00:53:18,630 --> 00:53:17,440
future so

1427
00:53:21,270 --> 00:53:18,640
yeah i think it's great that there's a

1428
00:53:22,870 --> 00:53:21,280
renewed renewed interest

1429
00:53:26,309 --> 00:53:22,880
okay right over here

1430
00:53:27,589 --> 00:53:26,319
uh rob perla with collect space again um

1431
00:53:29,349 --> 00:53:27,599
to the extent that you talked to him

1432
00:53:31,510 --> 00:53:29,359
about it over the year or even after you

1433
00:53:33,190 --> 00:53:31,520
landed how comparable was misha's

1434
00:53:35,829 --> 00:53:33,200
experience to your own

1435
00:53:38,790 --> 00:53:35,839
and um psychologically

1436
00:53:39,910 --> 00:53:38,800
uh and was there any difference between

1437
00:53:41,829 --> 00:53:39,920
your two

1438
00:53:44,230 --> 00:53:41,839
340 days

1439
00:53:46,309 --> 00:53:44,240
you know i can't really comment on

1440
00:53:48,390 --> 00:53:46,319
his his personal experience

1441
00:53:51,190 --> 00:53:48,400
psychologically what i can say is he's a

1442
00:53:54,470 --> 00:53:51,200
great great guy and i it was a privilege

1443
00:53:56,549 --> 00:53:54,480
flying with him and he'll be a lifelong

1444
00:53:59,190 --> 00:53:56,559
lifelong friend of mine any and he did

1445
00:54:01,190 --> 00:53:59,200
great i mean but other than that you

1446
00:54:03,750 --> 00:54:01,200
know i i think it wouldn't be my place

1447
00:54:05,670 --> 00:54:03,760
to comment on you know how he did uh

1448
00:54:08,309 --> 00:54:05,680
like personally and what his personal

1449
00:54:10,470 --> 00:54:08,319
feelings are i'll let him answer those

1450
00:54:13,349 --> 00:54:10,480
those questions for your own experience

1451
00:54:15,190 --> 00:54:13,359
was is helpful was it

1452
00:54:16,790 --> 00:54:15,200
necessary to have someone else going

1453
00:54:19,030 --> 00:54:16,800
through the same

1454
00:54:20,710 --> 00:54:19,040
year in space with you or was it

1455
00:54:23,510 --> 00:54:20,720
sufficient to have people coming in and

1456
00:54:27,030 --> 00:54:25,270
i think

1457
00:54:28,069 --> 00:54:27,040
it was nice i don't think it was

1458
00:54:30,390 --> 00:54:28,079
required

1459
00:54:32,950 --> 00:54:30,400
um i think for some people it might be

1460
00:54:35,190 --> 00:54:32,960
more important um to have

1461
00:54:37,190 --> 00:54:35,200
someone doing the same thing as them

1462
00:54:38,710 --> 00:54:37,200
i don't think i necessarily needed that

1463
00:54:40,470 --> 00:54:38,720
but it was uh

1464
00:54:42,710 --> 00:54:40,480
i i enjoyed it

1465
00:54:46,789 --> 00:54:42,720
and i liked having him as as my

1466
00:54:49,829 --> 00:54:48,470
okay let's get a couple from

1467
00:54:51,990 --> 00:54:49,839
ask nasa

1468
00:54:54,950 --> 00:54:52,000
um so one of the first you experienced

1469
00:54:56,549 --> 00:54:54,960
was an eva so um rome shock on twitter

1470
00:54:59,589 --> 00:54:56,559
is wondering can you speak to your

1471
00:55:02,390 --> 00:54:59,599
experience on that eva

1472
00:55:03,829 --> 00:55:02,400
yeah that's uh that's something those

1473
00:55:05,109 --> 00:55:03,839
space walks

1474
00:55:07,990 --> 00:55:05,119
very

1475
00:55:10,069 --> 00:55:08,000
you know technically challenging

1476
00:55:11,829 --> 00:55:10,079
uh can be physically challenging

1477
00:55:14,230 --> 00:55:11,839
depending on what you're doing and the

1478
00:55:17,589 --> 00:55:14,240
time you're uh

1479
00:55:18,549 --> 00:55:17,599
you're outside uh errors varied from you

1480
00:55:19,990 --> 00:55:18,559
know over

1481
00:55:21,910 --> 00:55:20,000
seven hours that

1482
00:55:23,270 --> 00:55:21,920
shel ingram and i did and the first two

1483
00:55:25,430 --> 00:55:23,280
i did to uh

1484
00:55:26,789 --> 00:55:25,440
to just over five hours

1485
00:55:29,829 --> 00:55:26,799
um

1486
00:55:34,309 --> 00:55:29,839
so they were much different

1487
00:55:38,390 --> 00:55:35,829
i guess one

1488
00:55:41,670 --> 00:55:38,400
main feeling i had

1489
00:55:44,710 --> 00:55:41,680
after doing those first two is that

1490
00:55:46,390 --> 00:55:44,720
you know i got this sense that

1491
00:55:48,789 --> 00:55:46,400
you have all these people involved in

1492
00:55:50,069 --> 00:55:48,799
this and they all do great work and it's

1493
00:55:52,150 --> 00:55:50,079
uh

1494
00:55:54,309 --> 00:55:52,160
and they're very very important to the

1495
00:55:55,589 --> 00:55:54,319
process and what what what we're doing

1496
00:55:57,589 --> 00:55:55,599
but in the end

1497
00:55:59,750 --> 00:55:57,599
there's only one person you can rely on

1498
00:56:02,069 --> 00:55:59,760
out there and that's your your eva buddy

1499
00:56:04,150 --> 00:56:02,079
everything else is just advice but

1500
00:56:06,309 --> 00:56:04,160
that's the person you know you're very

1501
00:56:08,069 --> 00:56:06,319
very reliant on one another for your

1502
00:56:10,150 --> 00:56:08,079
lives literally

1503
00:56:11,750 --> 00:56:10,160
um doesn't take away from you know

1504
00:56:14,470 --> 00:56:11,760
everyone that helps us but all they can

1505
00:56:16,950 --> 00:56:14,480
give you is advice

1506
00:56:19,589 --> 00:56:16,960
so that's kind of the main

1507
00:56:21,589 --> 00:56:19,599
takeaway i had from those experiences

1508
00:56:23,190 --> 00:56:21,599
the view is great too it's

1509
00:56:24,630 --> 00:56:23,200
pretty amazing

1510
00:56:26,390 --> 00:56:24,640
awesome so i think we're gonna take one

1511
00:56:27,750 --> 00:56:26,400
more and um this is related to the

1512
00:56:30,230 --> 00:56:27,760
people you spent your time with up there

1513
00:56:32,549 --> 00:56:30,240
so lady lloyd on twitter is wondering

1514
00:56:34,710 --> 00:56:32,559
how much does the changing personnel on

1515
00:56:36,549 --> 00:56:34,720
station affect your psyche do you

1516
00:56:39,589 --> 00:56:36,559
welcome the change or is it hard to see

1517
00:56:41,430 --> 00:56:39,599
the people leave before you do

1518
00:56:45,030 --> 00:56:41,440
change is good

1519
00:56:47,430 --> 00:56:45,040
it's something you welcome

1520
00:56:49,910 --> 00:56:47,440
and it's hard to see them leave

1521
00:56:51,109 --> 00:56:49,920
when they do leave

1522
00:56:54,230 --> 00:56:51,119
and

1523
00:56:56,150 --> 00:56:54,240
in the case in in my case especially

1524
00:56:57,589 --> 00:56:56,160
with

1525
00:57:01,510 --> 00:56:57,599
having

1526
00:57:03,589 --> 00:57:01,520
had two groups of like guys that weren't

1527
00:57:04,950 --> 00:57:03,599
either experienced space station got

1528
00:57:07,750 --> 00:57:04,960
well

1529
00:57:08,789 --> 00:57:07,760
i had three guys that had never flown in

1530
00:57:10,870 --> 00:57:08,799
space that were going to be long

1531
00:57:13,910 --> 00:57:10,880
duration crew members it was somewhat

1532
00:57:16,150 --> 00:57:13,920
sad to uh do like for chell and kimia

1533
00:57:18,390 --> 00:57:16,160
for me to to get them all

1534
00:57:20,549 --> 00:57:18,400
to watch them develop and then get them

1535
00:57:22,710 --> 00:57:20,559
to where they're like functioning very

1536
00:57:24,230 --> 00:57:22,720
at a very high level and then they leave

1537
00:57:25,430 --> 00:57:24,240
and then i gotta kind of start all over

1538
00:57:27,109 --> 00:57:25,440
a little bit

1539
00:57:29,109 --> 00:57:27,119
but uh that's the case with anyone it's

1540
00:57:30,950 --> 00:57:29,119
not particularly them but it was

1541
00:57:33,829 --> 00:57:30,960
but it was fascinating seeing them go

1542
00:57:35,270 --> 00:57:33,839
from brand new guys to seasoned veterans

1543
00:57:37,510 --> 00:57:35,280
over the course of

1544
00:57:39,990 --> 00:57:37,520
you know several months and then it was

1545
00:57:41,750 --> 00:57:40,000
i was sorry to see them leave

1546
00:57:43,829 --> 00:57:41,760
okay we are just about out of time but i

1547
00:57:46,390 --> 00:57:43,839
think we can get one more

1548
00:57:48,549 --> 00:57:46,400
vantage point of space um

1549
00:57:50,309 --> 00:57:48,559
what did you see uh i guess the impact

1550
00:57:53,670 --> 00:57:50,319
on the earth i know you took a lot of

1551
00:57:54,630 --> 00:57:53,680
photographs what was that impact you saw

1552
00:57:56,870 --> 00:57:54,640
and maybe

1553
00:57:59,109 --> 00:57:56,880
how we're contributing to the change on

1554
00:58:01,349 --> 00:57:59,119
the airport

1555
00:58:03,430 --> 00:58:01,359
you could see a lot of pollution

1556
00:58:04,549 --> 00:58:03,440
in uh

1557
00:58:06,789 --> 00:58:04,559
you know over

1558
00:58:09,109 --> 00:58:06,799
parts of asia

1559
00:58:11,270 --> 00:58:09,119
that's almost continuous constantly

1560
00:58:12,950 --> 00:58:11,280
there that you can't really see the

1561
00:58:14,230 --> 00:58:12,960
ground very well

1562
00:58:15,990 --> 00:58:14,240
and uh

1563
00:58:19,109 --> 00:58:16,000
you know those fires in california over

1564
00:58:21,349 --> 00:58:19,119
the summer i mean that smoke was was a

1565
00:58:23,589 --> 00:58:21,359
pretty uh extensive

1566
00:58:25,349 --> 00:58:23,599
you know covering large parts of the u.s

1567
00:58:27,349 --> 00:58:25,359
you could tell it was the same

1568
00:58:29,030 --> 00:58:27,359
same amount of smoke you know noticing

1569
00:58:31,349 --> 00:58:29,040
weather systems in areas where you're

1570
00:58:33,510 --> 00:58:31,359
not normally used to seeing them or

1571
00:58:34,950 --> 00:58:33,520
expect them to be

1572
00:58:37,349 --> 00:58:34,960
but the predominant thing is you just

1573
00:58:39,349 --> 00:58:37,359
notice how thin the atmosphere is

1574
00:58:41,270 --> 00:58:39,359
how fragile it looks

1575
00:58:44,549 --> 00:58:41,280
so that you know combined with you know

1576
00:58:52,549 --> 00:58:44,559
this large swaths of pollution is uh is

1577
00:58:55,750 --> 00:58:54,309
you got to take care of the environment

1578
00:58:57,589 --> 00:58:55,760
i mean

1579
00:58:59,109 --> 00:58:57,599
you know people say um

1580
00:59:02,549 --> 00:58:59,119
they often say

1581
00:59:04,549 --> 00:59:02,559
trying to think of the term um

1582
00:59:06,230 --> 00:59:04,559
you know about saving the planet we need

1583
00:59:07,990 --> 00:59:06,240
to save the planet

1584
00:59:09,510 --> 00:59:08,000
planet will be just fine and sus is

1585
00:59:11,190 --> 00:59:09,520
going to have a problem

1586
00:59:12,789 --> 00:59:11,200
you know planet will get better you know

1587
00:59:15,670 --> 00:59:12,799
we might not be here because we're going

1588
00:59:17,990 --> 00:59:15,680
to you know destroy the environment and

1589
00:59:19,750 --> 00:59:18,000
you know and but i think the planet will

1590
00:59:21,510 --> 00:59:19,760
eventually recover

1591
00:59:23,510 --> 00:59:21,520
probably be without people

1592
00:59:25,670 --> 00:59:23,520
so you know it's very you know for us to

1593
00:59:28,230 --> 00:59:25,680
take care of our the air we breathe and

1594
00:59:30,950 --> 00:59:28,240
the you know the

1595
00:59:34,630 --> 00:59:30,960
and the water we drink is uh is is

1596
00:59:37,430 --> 00:59:34,640
critical and and i do believe we have an

1597
00:59:39,990 --> 00:59:37,440
impact on that and we

1598
00:59:43,750 --> 00:59:40,000
do have the uh the ability to change it

1599
00:59:47,510 --> 00:59:45,670
okay i think that's all we have time for

1600
00:59:49,030 --> 00:59:47,520
i know scott has to probably get back to

1601
00:59:51,510 --> 00:59:49,040
a lot of medical tests

1602
00:59:53,910 --> 00:59:51,520
yeah so we're gonna we're gonna wrap up

1603
00:59:55,589 --> 00:59:53,920
there um but of course uh this is not

1604
00:59:57,349 --> 00:59:55,599
really the end for him at all he's got

1605
00:59:59,349 --> 00:59:57,359
another year of medical testing and you

1606
01:00:01,349 --> 00:59:59,359
can keep up with all that not only on

1607
01:00:04,069 --> 01:00:01,359
social media but also online at

1608
01:00:06,230 --> 01:00:04,079
www.nasa.gov

1609
01:00:07,510 --> 01:00:06,240
one year so we'll hope to hear more