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all right good morning

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good morning we're looking forward to

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talking to you today

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hey what what time is it right now where

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you know i've seen a lot of uh images

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and video of what it's like up there

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one thing i've always wondered what does

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you know we have this ongoing discussion

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about how do you capture a smell in

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words and so it's really difficult to

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yesterday tim peake was talking about

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how it smells sort of clinical

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it's really hard to describe but you

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know in general the air is very well

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processed and so once you've been here

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for a while you don't smell anything

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to speak of you know jeff just came the

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other day and he said he had this uh

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distinct memory of having been here

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before because of the smell of space

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uh when was the last time one of you

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you know i think i've sneezed you know a

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couple days ago how about you tim

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yeah you know up here one of the things

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that can happen is you do actually get a

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also dust floats in the atmosphere

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unlike on earth where all the dust gets

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sucked down to the floor because of

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gravity so we do sneeze on board the

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when you sneeze does that sneeze just

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blast uh into the atmosphere of the

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you know that goes back to the point

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that tim made about us having a very

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good air system air circulation system

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here so uh the air flow goes in a very

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definite direction with uh uh our

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extractor fans and that cleans up the

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i'm curious are you um

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up there are you able to pick out the

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constellations that we can see on earth

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could could you say find the big dipper

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or are there just too many stars to see

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are much brighter than the other stars

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can see many many more stars the bright

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field background it's interesting most

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so you guys are in space you're in the

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space station it's super cool for us to

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but ultimately you're also your

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roommates you have to share space

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do you guys have to fight over the music

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some sort of agreement on on all the

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things you have to share and uh you know

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you have uh traditions or rituals that

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um you go through to try and stay

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connected with your friends and family

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space station we have great

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communications with friends and family

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whenever we have satellite coverage we

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can actually call our friends and family

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and once a week we get a video

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conference as well with our families

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which is great you know that's a really

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nice facility to have and it helps keep

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little peace and quiet huh you know i

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improve how we use it as well so i think

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when when you dream about work

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conversation here jeff and tim say they

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really don't dream much you know and uh

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similar pattern to to being on earth you

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lot of folks where their dreams

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transition from earthbound to floating i

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think since we've been here for uh 100

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dreams i'm floating some i'm back on

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earth and remembering childhood memories

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like being on earth only this added

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flavor of having some dreams in zero

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have you guys ever been walking around

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there like you know when you're at home

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everything tidy and ship shape and

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velcro down but for example the other

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going well and a battery just floated

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camera uh so that that kind of stuff can

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happen occasionally uh but we try and

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keep everything uh tidy down the other

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the corner of my eye moving and my first

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thought was it will be a flyer or

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mosquito or a bug but of course you know

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that nasa had released of the apollo

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breakfast uh but then every once in a

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normal just to to live and and adapt to

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older astronauts or astronauts that have

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cocktail party and uh and that comes out

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know exactly what it's like to uh to go

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thank you so much enjoy the conversation

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you all have a great day

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station this is houston acr that

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portion of the event please stand by for

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station this is wired how do you hear me

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we hear you loud and clear

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sure um i'm tim copra commander of

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a fellow nasa astronaut and just arrived

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and if you don't mind repeating uh the

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questions they're they're short

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questions um just before you answer that

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um so the first question from google

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the real question is can we whistle in a

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and it can be very difficult actually

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because in that in that case you're

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breathing 100 oxygen which means you're

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i'm sorry a lower pressure so when

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you're at a lower pressure

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challenging we certainly can whistle

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here inside the space station because

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so can astronauts wear glasses of course

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they can wear glasses you know jeff has

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his glasses on right now i'm wearing

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contact lenses

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young tim peek doesn't need glasses but

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we surely can wear them

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well astronauts can drink alcohol when

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we're training on the ground or planet

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alcohol is not permitted on board the

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you know can astronauts cry in space of

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course astronauts can cry in space uh

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you know the water in space is different

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because it sticks to your skin it's

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like this gluey substance that just has

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this ability to stick to your skin so if

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you were to have a really big cry then

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your eyes would just swell up with water

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instead of dropping off

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can astronauts have piercings

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the female astronauts that have been up

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here the ladies that have had pierced

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ears and that kind of thing

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restrictions so

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piercing they do it on the ground not

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you know thank you for asking us to

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repeat these questions do astronauts

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drink their own pee well

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um in a sense yes

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water here and which is an amazing thing

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the system collects up the urine and all

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that gets processed and then put out of

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a portable water dispenser which is

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right over our head so every day that's

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um do astronauts keep their suits

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can astronauts keep their suits their

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spacesuits um unfortunately not no our

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spacesuits are quite valuable pieces of

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equipment um we have two spacesuits one

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inside the sawyer spacecraft for launch

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and for re-entry and one spacesuit that

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we wear outside the space station if we

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get the opportunity to do a space walk

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but no unfortunately not they're not

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personal items of equipment

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do astronauts need passports actually

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when we come home we do need passports

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have to go through customs and so our

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ground team makes sure that we have our

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passport so that we can actually leave

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kazakhstan and go back to america when

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we're done

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we do have a variety of drinks on board

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the question was do astronauts drink

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and of course that comes from

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a lot of tv shows historically anyway i

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don't think we have tang specifically on

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board but we do have lots of fruit

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everything you have to add water and mix

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it up either hot or cold water and then

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the astronauts vote

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do astronauts vote in space yes we can

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vote in space in fact

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nasa has been very good about setting up

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a process so that that we can

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do astronauts wear diapers

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answer to that question um when we

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launch in the sawyers we have at least a

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couple of hours before launch sitting in

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that spacecraft and then we have to go

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through a six-hour rendezvous and then

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from docking until actually uh getting

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on board the space station so we wear

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diapers flat we also wear diapers when

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we go outside the space station do a

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space walk we could spend anything from

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eight to eight to ten hours inside that

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spacesuit sometimes longer so

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we're behoven to take precautions and

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wear diapers just in case you need to

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can humans colonize mars

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i think of course we can colonize mars

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it's a it's both

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a technical and a political question

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because it would take a tremendous

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amount of resources and

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that has to have the political will and

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the funding to do that and then

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obviously we need to develop the

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technology both to get there quickly

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land on the planet and then be able to

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live there but

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i'm certain that someday we'll be able

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to see that hopefully in our lifetime

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okay thank you guys so much this was

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awesome that was what the the crowd out

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there would like to know

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one last question is just i have two

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little boys um who are four and six

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years old and they would love to be

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astronauts do you have any last words of

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you know every young person who has the

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aspiration to be an astronaut

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should study hard in math and science

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follow their passion educationally and

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be able to get along well with people

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and if you can do those things you'll be

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so competitive to become an astronaut

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you'll be able to reach your goal

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thank you have a great day