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station this is houston are you ready

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we are ready for the event

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good morning gizmodo this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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a voice check

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station this is good moto how do you

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we hear you loud and clear

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good morning this is rhea mr with

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gizmodel i'm so glad you were all able

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to join us today

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the photographs we've seen come back

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from the iss have been really something

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to see which made me wonder what the

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most memorable site you've come across

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was whether a space view or something

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we know i think both the sunrises and

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the sunsets are so beautiful that they

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almost don't even look real and

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we've seen several since we've been here

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and it never gets old we have jeff

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williams who just joined us

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and he's seen

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many more than us and i think he may

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want to say a couple words about it as

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yeah i would just add sunsets and

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sunrises are beautiful they're always

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uh behind varying weather and especially

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that adds a lot of variety to it it's

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things for me to watch has been the way

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that each new expedition to the iss

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seems to make the space station just a

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little bit more homey we've seen a

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coffee machine an experimental vegetable

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garden having logged quite a bit of time

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on the iss now between the three of you

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what element of home would you like to

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you know we're just chatting here trying

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to come up with something because we

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have lots of the conveniences of home we

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have a refrigerator it would be good to

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have a full-time freezer that would be a

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nice feature maybe some ice cream on

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board we've got movies we can watch

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connection with family on phones so uh i

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and tim you've been on the iss for a few

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months now but jeff you've only had a

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few days so far how long does it take to

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learning curve at all for figuring out

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there was really no learning curve i

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i hear you've got a new 3d printer

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mission headed up later today any plans

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oftentimes we have experiments like that

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what we're going to print you know if we

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printer for then i'm sure we could be

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you're coming to us from the space

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station's destiny lab today and i was

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just wondering which experiment each of

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physiology experiments i think it's nice

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to be able to contribute to the science

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materials and how combustion and zero

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looking forward to seeing those results

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space station and over 15 years of

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the station and it's very very

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impressive very impressive facility that

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our readers for you um what's your

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favorite space recipe to make in the iss

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meals amongst different crew members

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we're just thinking about that you know

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tortilla and it combines the different

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foods with our our russian colleagues

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that we've had a chance to share and so

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station is just a wonderful research

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platform and it's paving the way for

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future exploration of the solar system

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further exploration and further

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resources that we can utilize and

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mars as well and um you know we're

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to mars and having just completed the uh

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for scott kelly and misha konyenko the

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one year mission on board the space

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pleasure talking with you all have a

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great rest of the mission and the safe

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plan at home

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station this is houston acr that

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routine on the station you know what are

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work and live because some aspects of

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wake up and you get out of your sleeping

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bag and your crew quarters you float out

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we have all our food stowed and get some

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coffee and some breakfast and then do

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some cleanup and then the rest of the

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schedule and off of procedures and we

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different control centers to get help

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loved ones and and what's the biggest

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communicating with most of all but we

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also have great communications on board

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the space station uh with our families

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we can use voice over ip telephones and

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effectively we can call anywhere in the

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on the planet so we can keep in touch

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with friends and families in the

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evenings once we've finished our working

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day

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wonderful and i'd love to talk more

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about what is your daily hygiene like

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you know what is what is the general

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human upkeep like how do you deal with

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no showers going to the bathroom all

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yeah hygiene up here is actually

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very good it takes a little bit to get

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acclimated to working in this

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environment obviously

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we don't have a shower and that's

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probably one of the things that most of

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us most miss while we're up here and

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look forward to when we get back in the

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ground but we we still are able to keep

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very clean essentially taking sponge

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bass

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we have a toilet that you would you

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would recognize as a toilet and it works

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very well

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and brushing your teeth and shaving is

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things like that is just like we do on

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the ground you just have to work a

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little bit harder and get accustomed to

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managing

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all the things because of course

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everything floats up here

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right and speaking of floating what has

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been the biggest adjustment for you both

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physically and mentally with going into

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microgravity and do you have a favorite

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well you know as a first first timer to

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space as a rookie astronaut my

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adaptation was you know i know it was

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really interesting for tim and scott at

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the time to observe uh seeing somebody

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who's never been in space before you

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know gradually progress and learning how

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to cope with microgravity i it took

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about 24 hours before i felt actually

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comfortable because for the first 24

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hours there's a lot of dizziness and

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disorientation just as your vestibular

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system needs to really shut down and i

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think your brain tends to then rely just

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on information coming from the eye so

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you don't feel nauseous

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and then it's uh it was a real

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interesting and fun two weeks i think

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kind of developing all the tricks you

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need to learn how to handle microgravity

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um and even now i still enjoy just in

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this environment working and living in

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this environment it's a lot of fun once

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great and what about the trip to and

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from the station jeff i know you've done

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this quite a bit so which part do you

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uh

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boy they're both highlights and there's

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a lot of highlights in the in during the

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voyage on station as well

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i mean obviously to get here you're

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looking forward to the launch and it's a

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it's a very exciting ride uh this time

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it was five and a half hours as opposed

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to two days to get here so it was good

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to get here in a short amount of time of

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course the landing is pretty dynamic too

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and plus

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by that time after six months up here

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you're ready to go home so you're very

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excited about getting back into that

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into the atmosphere go through in the

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atmosphere with which is a

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you know one of the

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challenges of space flight is safely

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being able to do that but it also means

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that you know you're going home and you

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feel like you're home as soon as you hit

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the ground even though it's halfway

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around the world in the middle of

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nowhere

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and what about earth do you guys miss

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the most and what do you miss most from

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gravity um and also what do you like the

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most about being in space what are the

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you know um living in zero gravity is

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some of the best uh

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things about living and some of the most

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frustrating things about living because

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uh you know you can't just put your

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things out on a table and and expect it

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to be there you have to be very

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meticulous about all the things that you

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have it has to be in a certain place and

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you have to remember where you put it

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because no longer is it just a flat

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surface in which something can be stowed

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it can be stowed on any surface either

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with tape or with velcro and so that

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becomes uh you know a little bit of a

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challenge until you get used to living

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i'm also curious about what the

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selection process is like for each

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mission

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what goes into deciding which astronaut

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is going to fly during which period and

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how is the commander picked and so on

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you know

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a lot of smart guys on the ground that

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look at the different skills of each

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individual crew member and uh

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you know we have a very very talented

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group of people at each one of the

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different agencies that provide

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astronauts for the international space

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station astronauts and cosmonauts

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and so

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frankly i think that

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you can pick a wide variety of people

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for these missions and they'll all be

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very successful

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there are very specific skills that we

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all have to have even just to be

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assigned be able to fly the robotic arm

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because we have vehicles that come here

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that we capture and then the ground

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docks it on to the space station we have

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spacewalks and it's a very challenging

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task and we have to be proficient in

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that and then just be able to work here

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on space station so

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the the challenge of each one of the

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different agencies is to have a pool of

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people that they can assign and frankly

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i think you know all of the people that

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are astronauts in those agencies can be

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assigned because they have those skills

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they've been selected for it and they've

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been trained for it in terms of

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you know selecting the commander there's

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also a wide variety of people that can

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be selected for that as well i think

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it's it's good that someone has a

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previous flight experience so they know

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what to expect and uh

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you know beyond that uh

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there's uh just a

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um

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a lot of timing i think in terms of of

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who they select and uh who's available

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for that flight

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great and i'm curious to know what's the

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air like up there is there a distinct

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difference between the environment on

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earth know we we get to enjoy pretty

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good air up here it's it's recycled it's

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uh scrubbed from uh carbon dioxide and

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other harmful gases uh it's a fairly

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constant humidity and temperature um the

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one thing that's very different from

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planet earth is we we have about 10

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times the co2 level up here um but other

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than that it's a it's a pretty good

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atmosphere um often people ask about the

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smell of of space and and the smell of

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the space station i remember it being

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almost like a a clinical smell when i

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came on board um and i know you know

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jeff having just arrived a couple of

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days ago said ah that very familiar

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smell it's quite hard to describe at the

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space station and it's similar for when

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astronauts come back in from a spacewalk

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as well and you open up the airlock and

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you can smell a very distinctive smell

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it's almost like i think a metallic

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ionization type of smell

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maybe that's the smell of space who

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well i really appreciate you guys taking

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the time to speak with me today this has

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been a lot of fun and i feel like i've

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learned a lot about your daily routine

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it's our pleasure nice chatting with you

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you so much

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thank you gizmodo and the verge station