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station this is houston are you ready

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i am ready for the event

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way tv this is mission control houston

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station this is way tv how do you hear

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i read you loud and clear how me

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we read you tim good morning from

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huntsville this is josh barrett at way

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tv thank you for taking the time to talk

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to us i know you got a very busy week

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with the new crew coming up this weekend

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uh one of the flight controllers that i

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talked to here in huntsville said her

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favorite part about scott kelly's

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mission was watching you all welcome new

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crewmates to the iss

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she said you can feel the joy and the

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anticipation

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as you're waiting on your crew so can

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you talk about that a little bit what's

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it like from your perspective as you're

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we know it's a very interesting time

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because we had six people on board and

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then uh we lost half of our crew and uh

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tim your and i have had sort of a quiet

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reduction of three people but it's a big

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anticipating this this new crew we're

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setting out their their clothes and

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we'll set up jeff's sleeping bag but uh

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i remember that moment coming on board

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and and seeing that uh that crew that

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had been here for a while and so that'll

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be our role now and we're just really

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looking forward to seeing jeff and alexi

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and a leg on board it'll be an exciting

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time and uh fresh blood here on space

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yeah i'm excited to watch you guys

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welcome them as well i know also next

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week you have a supply mission coming

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courtesy of a decatur made atlas 5

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rocket have you got a chance to look at

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the cargo manifest is there anything

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catching your eye that you're looking

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you know not in particular there's uh

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you know for every time we have a

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mission there's always a crew preference

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uh container and so we'll get a few

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things that are special to us just a few

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items that'll be nice you know maybe a

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few more foods that we don't have up

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in general i think we have a cargo

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vehicle come it's really a time for us

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to really focus on taking care of all

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that stowage and getting things put in

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the proper place i think that's probably

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our main focus when we get a new vehicle

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now i thought last week tim that you had

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to repair the urine processor assembly

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on the space station i know that's a

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piece of equipment they build here in

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marshall my question for you is when

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when something breaks on the iss and the

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people who know how to fix it are here

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on earth walk me through that process

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what do you guys have to do you know you

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you know after the uh the last week and

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a half i feel like i've uh earned half

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my degree in uh plumbing and uh

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electrician work but uh the thing that's

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most important and what the the ground

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team does exceedingly well is write the

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procedures so that we can repair it just

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by reading through this and with a

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fixed like this so a combination of

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design of these different pieces of

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equipment makes it so that we're able to

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repair it and we're very grateful for

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gonna switch now i've got some questions

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from space campers as you know

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mia from decatur this is a fantastic

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question she says if you can have one

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achievement on your gravestone besides

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probably being a good dad

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well that was a quick answer so i might

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mess up this young lady's name but juno

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leo from puerto rico is wondering how

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does it feel to risk your life and leave

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your family behind all the travel in

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space here and when we go home

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our life is in peril but

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fabulous team that has designed this

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hardware and that has taken care of the

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operations and so i would say that we

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all feel like the the risk has been

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the benefits far outweigh the risks that

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station are very proud to be able to

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advance the the state of the art in

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terms of uh human presence in space and

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science so i think all of us feel that

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it's a it's an even trade and you know

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on earth and we're up here working but

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we're also taken care of in lots of ways

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we can call our family practically every

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to talk to your friends and family on

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the ground uh cooper from chicago wants

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different from your previous space

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and maybe uh it was the right time to go

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proficient you get at your skills for

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taking care of station and working with

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science and repairing the vehicle but

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also just feeling comfortable in space

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i am very grateful for every day that i

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that you guys take up there when you

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send them back down to earth sarah from

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huntsville wants to know if you wanted

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astronaut since i was about six and i

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point and we had some former astronauts

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achieved that goal and so i i definitely

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hard and study in math and science and

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yeah it's all paying off right now is

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get the spectacular views you were

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camper questions i wanted to switch

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uh and uh and the scientists on the

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differences between living on earth and

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respects have a wow factor and i hope

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yeah i love following the experiments

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conversation back and forth as they help

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time we have thank you very much again i

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know you're very busy i hope you enjoy

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thank you so much josh i enjoyed talking

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with you you guys take care in

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event please stand by for a voice check

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from cbs news

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station this is bill harwood cbs news at

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the kennedy space center how do you read

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hey bill i read you loud and clear

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well great uh you know i was just

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thinking about that the other day you've

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been up there i guess today is 91 days

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flights uh does the time fly for you or

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does it drag or is it something in the

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you know bill uh i think all of us on

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night and both of us were commenting man

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what happened to the day it just flew by

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you know you mentioned off time you're

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going to get a chance to watch a little

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looking forward to it you know we we've

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been able to watch a lot of significant

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sporting events up here and it's it's

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always a pleasure we have a projection

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system here and so we can watch it on

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the big screen

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well

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that's great you know i was i was

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thinking about you again the other day

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because you know i remember covering

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when you got knocked off a flight back i

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guess it was in 2011 or maybe 2010 and

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and all the time you put into to get

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back and now you're up there you're 91

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days into this flight i mean it just

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strikes me as an amazing

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personal story that and one that you

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must truly appreciate

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uh the opportunity to do what you're

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doing i is it all you'd hoped it would

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be um i mean what do you think about

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well bill i'd have to say that it's a

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lot more than i expected it to be and uh

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you know having taken a little bit

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longer route to get back here i think

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i have a measure of gratitude that uh

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that may be a little bit uncommon so

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every day no kidding when i wake up i am

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very grateful to be here and for this

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opportunity you know coincidentally you

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know steve bowen was our capcom this

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morning who was able to fill into my

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role in on sts-133 and do such a

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fabulous job so it's funny to watch the

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full circle of events as i spend time up

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here

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wow that's interesting

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tell me about the maybe the differences

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you've noted uh between your first stay

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up there and now and i don't mean you

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know different modules and things like

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that

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your your personal uh

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i don't know what i'm looking for here

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is is it your second time around up

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there what are some of the differences

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you've noticed about the way you you've

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adapted to life in space or just

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you know i can actually comment on both

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those i think you know from the

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standpoint of the crew member when they

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come up here i think your body remembers

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the time that it spent up here because

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it felt as if the adaptation was was

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much faster this time and almost to the

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extent that i felt like i picked up

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after uh where i left off

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back in uh you know a few years back in

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2009 so from that standpoint it's really

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nice to spend more time here feel more

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comfortable and more time to look out

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the window and the other observation

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that is very clear to me is the fact

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that

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flight have become much more mature and

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so things just operate very very

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smoothly now and they did before but to

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even a much greater extent now

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almost like it's it's it's a mature

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stable ops i guess since you don't have

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absolutely we're definitely focused on

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on the mission here and uh and every

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different center has gotten so much

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better in terms of how they conduct

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operations it's it's very impressive to

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watch

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um tell me a little bit about what it's

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like going from six people to three

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people i've always thought that uh it's

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not like you're crowded with six but

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always thought it'd be kind of a welcome

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break to go down to three if it was me

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just to have more space and more

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time i guess i don't know personal space

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to myself what's it like for you what's

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what's the differences with life with

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you know bill the change is not big

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because uh it may sound like uh you know

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we're cramped up in the space station

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six people in a small area but space

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station

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is really huge and so from a space

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standpoint you don't notice it so much

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but i mean the interaction has changed a

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little bit because you know i typically

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we had three people down here and we

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would see our russian colleagues on

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occasion and now tim peake and i are

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here in the us os and we have yuri down

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on the other end of space station and so

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i think you know the main thing you

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notice is that you don't have to

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coordinate as much if you want to

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exercise at a different time for example

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and it is a little bit quieter and it's

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a different time but we're also really

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looking forward to adding jeff alexia

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and aleg to the crew

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well i was going to ask you about that

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you know the station's changed quite a

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bit since jeff was up there last what do

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you think is going to be the biggest

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you know i don't think much is really

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going to surprise jeff because he has so

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much experience up here

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and

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he'll just fit right into the groove i

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can't see jeff being surprised by by

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much in terms of the operations because

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things are very stable now you know i

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think some of the connectivity we have

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is a little bit better we have internet

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not super fast but we do have internet

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it's a nice feature and some of those

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creature comforts that you're used to on

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the earth they mean a whole lot up here

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yeah i'm sure about that but it'll also

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be good i guess to get i mean he's got

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enormous amount of experience i mean

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having another american on board with uh

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that level of experience must uh

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i don't think makes life easier for you

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but it's got to be a it's got to be

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we know i think

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we're definitely looking forward to

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having jeff and his expertise on board i

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think you know there's there's two sides

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of the coin you could have someone who's

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brand new up here who is uh is learning

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for the first time and that's a fun

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process to watch or you can have someone

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who's super experienced like jeff for

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example and we can learn a lot from him

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especially you know one thing i'm

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especially looking forward to talking to

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jeff about is his uh his photography

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expertise because we're developing

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expertise but jeff has a real passion

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for photography and we're hoping to to

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learn a lot from him in that area

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well that'd be well your pictures have

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been pretty good tim so keep them coming

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for sure

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um

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you guys have a pretty busy schedule

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coming up here in the near term i guess

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you got a progress um

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cygnus coming up at the end of the month

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and then presumably spacex in

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in early april talk to me a little bit

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about visiting vehicles and what you

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we know we definitely practice uh for

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the uh the grappling of this vehicle

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because we have uh a free flyer capture

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uh scenario in which we use a robotic

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arm to grab on to that vehicle so that

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it can be docked onto station or birth

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onto station actually

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so from that standpoint there's some

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training involved and then there's the

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excitement of watching that vehicle come

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in and then grabbing it with the robotic

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arm but then after that

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it's a lot of logistics and we're

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bringing up lots of equipment and it's a

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big station but there's not a huge

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amount of extra room for stowage and so

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it's definitely important for us to get

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things organized in such a manner that

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when all these uh these new pieces of

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equipment come on board we have the

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right place to put it and we can still

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do our our normal science operations

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here on boards that's going to be the

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bulk of our work for the next several

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weeks

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now uh beam is coming up i guess on

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spacex eight uh does the ground pull

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that out and mount it outside or do you

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uh it's going to be a a ground operation

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and uh from the inside we're going to be

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the ones that uh that inflate this this

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new vehicle and so we're we're excited

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about uh that that whole operation

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tell me about that a little bit uh that

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strikes me as a potentially useful

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technology down the road whether it's

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whether it's around the moon or you know

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a mars habitat of some kind to

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to help you get there um

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how comfortable are you with the whole

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idea of an inflatable module you tell

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somebody on the street they go what you

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know and obviously they know what

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they're doing but but

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well i think the technology has

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tremendous potential because uh you know

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it's very expensive to get things into

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space there's this huge weight penalty

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and you can almost well you can

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calculate how much things are going to

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cost based upon how heavy they are based

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upon the state of the art and if we can

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take uh you know a smaller volume and

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make it larger that has tremendous

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potential benefit uh for for all future

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human exploration

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and so uh from that standpoint we're

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very excited about it and we'll we'll

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make sure that we do things safely

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because it's a new technology and uh you

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know it's attached on to this this

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vehicle so we'll go through all the

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different measures to make sure that

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it's safe and and hopefully prove that

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it's a very viable and uh useful

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technology in the future

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um i know the purpose of this first run

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is just to inflate it and let it sit

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there and you know let the sensors do

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their thing but do you guys ever go

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inside this thing or is it

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strictly a matter of inflating it and

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you know it started out that weren't

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really going to go in at all and now

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we'll go in on occasion to change out

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some sensors um

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but it's a good size volume and so maybe

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at the end of its life there'll be an

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additional purpose for it

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but uh for right now it's just to open

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the hatch chains out some sensors on

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occasion and then close the hatch but

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that's probably the best bet the best

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way to deal with new technology because

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you know we try to mitigate risk in in

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every way that we can and that's

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probably the best way to do that

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well listen tim thanks a lot they've

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given me the old wrap here and uh i wish

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you best of luck for the rest of your

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increment look forward to seeing you

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thanks bill it's great chatting with you

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and look forward to seeing you soon

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station this is houston acr

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thank you that concludes the event

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thank you tv and cbs news station we are