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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is koat kh tv how do you

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we are now up to the international space

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per hour per hour rather commander tim

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copper joins us live good morning

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good morning how are you all today

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we're great here in oklahoma city a

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little cloudy here well above those

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clouds we want to know what life is like

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right above

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17 000 miles first what's day to day

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you know life here is really good we

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really filled with science and and

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impossible goal it was a great motivator

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all right uh commander besides floating

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microphones what other experiments are

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including your experiments on fire thank

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you do is at astro underscore tim and

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the fascinating pictures it's really

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station this is houston acr that

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conference a tag up with all the control

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centers around the world that support us

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i'm holding here this very beautiful

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book called good night spaceman this is

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released on the 7th of april and the

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forward in it it's from you yourself

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it's actually inspired by your mission

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and your two little boys at home looking

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up at the moon and thinking of their

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father up there in space the stories of

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two little boys who go to bed and then

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they get taken on this huge adventure

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yes that's absolutely right i mean

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flying into space is a huge privilege

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it's also a wonderful opportunity and a

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very valuable opportunity and one of the

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main objectives of my mission was to try

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and share that opportunity with as many

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with our young generation to use it as

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inspiration for children to be to get

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interested in space and more importantly

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to get interested in science

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seven-year-old so uh it has a particular

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closeness to my heart to be able to um

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businesses we're we have a huge space

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grow that that sector but more

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about the children and it is about the

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inspiration and uh trying to encourage

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think science is going to be the answer

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to so many of the problems that we have

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there'll be at least one occasion where

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i can think i'll need to wear a tuxedo

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i've got to i've got to ask you the

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the space walk

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to achieve something like that to uh to

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experience something that so few people

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would be able to to achieve when you

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walk out and you're in the vastness of

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space and you look down at our planet

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that's got to be quite a humbling

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it is hugely humbling um and you know

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we're we're just approaching kind of

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halfway through my mission now so i

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don't really want to say at the moment

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it's the highlight of the mission

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because there's still a long way to go

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but it's going to be pretty hard to beat

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that experience the moment the hatch

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opened and the airlock flooded with

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sunlight

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and we went outside it just felt

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incredible to be in the vacuum of space

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and just to have that thin visor

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separating from you you and this

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wonderful incredible view looking down

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on planet earth

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and in particular during the space walk

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we actually had about 10 minutes to

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enjoy that view whilst we were waiting

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for the sun to go down before we could

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actually start working on this

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electrical component and that's very

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rare to have that much time to actually

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kind of soak up that environment and

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really enjoy being out in space very

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and when you went on that space walk you

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took a picture of your boys with you has

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that been quite tough being so far away

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it has been tough being away from home

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you know in the in the six years i've

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been doing this job i've i've also spent

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a lot of time at home traveling around

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the world and training in russia and in

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germany as well as of course the us

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canada and japan but actually being up

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here um for this long stint being much

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more isolated from my family is tough i

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do get to speak to them quite regularly

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though and i have a video conference

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once a week so that helps me connect

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keep very well connected with my family

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but of course i'm missing birthdays and

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anniversaries and that that's

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particularly tough and christmas as well

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and how adept are you now at the uh the

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tricks in space you must be pretty good

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well the funny thing is we don't spend

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our day doing backflips but yeah i'm

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pretty good at moving around the station

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fairly quickly now and just working in

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in microgravity and we use our feet an

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awful lot not not not the bottoms of our

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feet but the tops of our feet an awful

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lot sort of grabbing under handrails

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we're also almost sort of like monkeys

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jumping from handrail to handrail just

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i'm imagining you're not really having

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to hold that microphone as opposed to

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just having to hold it down if you were

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absolutely yes

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that's the strange thing of course is uh

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is in space you don't have to put

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anything down that can be a double-edged

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sword sometimes it's nice to be able to

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put things down and sometimes it's great

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to be able to just let things hang in

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the air especially if you're eating food

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and drinking a drink of course it's

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great you can just have these things

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what's the rest of the day for you

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for the rest of the day for your show

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off

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well we've got some maintenance

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activities to do up here this afternoon

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um also physical training we have to do

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about two hours of physical training

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each day to try and prevent as much as

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that bone density loss and that muscle

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mass loss and make sure we're in good

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shape for coming back to earth and

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preparing for a big experiment a

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scientific experiment tomorrow on liquid

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crystals so quite a busy afternoon for

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and i imagine past that training is for

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the marathon that you're going to be

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that's right yes i'm starting to regret

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that decision now no but in all

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seriousness it's going to be a wonderful

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event but um running up here in space is

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is really quite hard work we have to

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wear a harness that keeps us strapped to

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the ground it's like running with a

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rucksack really with your body weight on

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it

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so i'm training every day on the

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treadmill up here and just gradually

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increasing the the number of hours and

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the number of miles i run but i'm

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running for the prince's trust which i

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think is a wonderful charity that does

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amazing work for disadvantaged young

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children and young people in the uk

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and of course also using it as

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inspiration for a number of fitness

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challenges we have to try and get young

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kids engaged in nutrition and healthy

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eating and just staying fit and healthy

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just finally tim um the the moment you

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looked out the window and thought i

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can't believe i'm seeing this what's

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impressed you the most out of that

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well the first time i saw earth from

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space was in the small sawyers

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spacecraft just uh you know a few

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moments after we'd launched into orbit

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and it was just spectacular and

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incredible but since then of course i've

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come on the station and really got to

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enjoy planet earth all times the day and

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night from the cupola windows

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and some of the places that have amazed

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me are for example africa i never

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imagined the sahara desert for example

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would just be so stunning from space but

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it really is magnificent all sorts of

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wonderful colors and you know sculpted

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by the the wind and the elements back on

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planet earth and it's just amazing to be

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able to see all of these things as we

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well it's been a real treat to talk to

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you thank you so very much indeed

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hopefully when you get your feet planted

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firmly back on the planet you'll come in

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and have a chat with us but we'll get

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formal now and uh and station uh that

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many thanks it's been lovely talking to

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you kokh tv esa and itv news