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sky news london this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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well there we can see tim peake on the

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big sky news and sky new sound this

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this is sky news london how do you hear

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hello sky news in london and uh hello to

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uh everybody at the national space

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center leicester i hear you loud and

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fantastic tim it's great to join you

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thank you so much for joining us uh

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thanks for giving sky news your first

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live broadcast interview we're

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absolutely delighted to speak to you

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we've got a lot of people here in the

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studio we've got our science

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correspondent thomas mall we've also got

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three space engineering students but our

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first question and i'm sure you'll be

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thrilled uh given part of the the aim of

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your mission is to engage children is

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from some children uh it's from neve

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who's seven and matthew who's nine and

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they would like to know

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what moment would you describe as as

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being out of this world since you've

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uh hi yeah that are great questions

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what's out of this world you know the

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whole experience has been out of this

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world from the moment um i first saw

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but i have to say every time i go to the

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cupola and look out that's the most out

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example the magnificent views that's

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the views the views of the earth from

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space uh thomas moore has got another

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question for you thomas tim it's uh

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british we're obsessed with the weather

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weather so this question is from peter

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stewart hunt i know it doesn't rain in

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space but do you get changeable weather

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tim uh it's jane again i mean you you

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knew what you were getting into you

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talked to all the astronauts you did a

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the routine but is there anything up

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the fresh air of course and being

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he posted a lovely photograph with lots

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of green in it and said we don't have

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challenges or the mental challenges what

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do you know our training is so good that

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mentally and physically challenging

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cargo vehicle which is again another

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demanding task for astronauts to do

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events that actually we just take them

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okay tim we've got a question from space

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student richard in the studio now

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richard take it away hello tom i'm

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and here's my question you've been

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how did the reality of microgravity

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training and it's certainly a lot of fun

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living and working in microgravity and

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orientation i like really and it doesn't

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richard great question and just looking

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you're thrilled to have had this chance

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fire there of course that would be a

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configuration and if we really had to if

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working in a japanese laboratory all

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with school which of these experiments

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six-month mission so that's really hard

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investigating metal alloys up here and

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how to make lighter stronger metal

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interesting ones that have the potential

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to benefit people back on planet earth

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environment to demonstrate some of those

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basic scientific principles and it was a

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videos of this kind of thing that can be

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used by school teachers in classrooms

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and across europe to try and demonstrate

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some of the the physics that are

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involved and for example the kinetic

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theory of gases we can demonstrate that

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really well up here with a clear ball

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particular ball going around the tube is

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just uh you can demonstrate a concept

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so i spent a great afternoon doing some

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fun videos that will hopefully be seen

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and a question tim from uh the national

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space center in leicester again this is

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my question is how many galaxies do you

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kevin goodness me what a wonderful

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question when i look outside the cooper

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at night time uh you know even to try

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and count them all would it would be a

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task that will be way too difficult but

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the best scientists and astronomers have

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estimated that there might be at least a

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hundred billion galaxies in the universe

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each one containing a hundred billion

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stars uh which is just mind-boggling

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that kind of figure um and uh you know

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there's a fact out there that there are

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more stars in the universe than there

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are grains of sand on planet earth which

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uh seems too mind-boggling to even

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comprehend but being up here and looking

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outside the cupola at night time i can

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fantastic thing thanks for that i don't

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know if you know that kevin i don't know

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if kevin was more stunned that you were

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answering his question or that he was on

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the big screen as the science said he

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was absolutely thrilled to get that

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response a couple of tougher questions

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for you though tim um

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you're obviously having a fantastic time

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watching you playing with the microphone

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you're answering tweets from children

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all the time but

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the cost of this mission it is billions

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that's a very good question and i

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absolutely do think it's worth it i mean

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not not forgetting that up here of

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course it's not just one country that's

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involved in this this is multiple

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country countries across the world it's

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a huge international collaboration

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between the u.s between russia canada

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japan and all the member states of

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europe as well

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and we've been doing research up here

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since the year 2000 when the

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international space station was first

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occupied it now has a life extension

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until 2024

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so that's a fantastic working laboratory

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doing great research and of course money

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that's spent in space is not spent in

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space it's spent back on earth it's jobs

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uh for the economy it's pushing the

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space industry to its limits the space

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industry in the uk alone is one of the

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fastest growing in growing sectors

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so it's it's worth it for so many

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we've got another question from a viewer

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now this one is from jonathan parry it's

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about space equipment space junk

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hundreds of redundant satellites and

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equipment in space would you say that

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we're now disrespecting the environment

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of space as we are doing so on our own

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yeah that's a really important question

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from jonathan and rachel and actually i

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think in the early years of space

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exploration yes we were perhaps a bit

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naive in terms of what we were doing and

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what we were putting into space but um

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more recently we're actually really

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making huge efforts to clean up space

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every

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satellite that is launched today has to

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have a means of either re-entering

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earth's atmosphere and burning up or

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being able to take it away from planet

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earth into safe orbits that aren't going

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to cause any problems with debris

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the international space station of

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course has to do debris avoidance

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maneuvers uh a few of them every year

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and it's something that we take

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extremely seriously so great you know

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i'm very grateful for the fact that

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we've now acknowledged the fact that

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space debris is a huge problem and that

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everybody on earth is making uh huge uh

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efforts to try and resolve this now and

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i think we've only got four minutes left

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on our call to you so we're gonna rattle

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through as fast as we can emily another

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space student here in the studio your

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turn for the question hi tim i'm emily

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um my question for you is with your

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experiences on the iss what do you think

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the challenges would be of establishing

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a moon colony and do you think what

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would be necessary in our mission to

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hi emily yes well a moon colony that's a

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great ambition to have and again it'd be

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wonderful to see that uh

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thought going forward as another

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international collaboration using what

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we've done here as the international

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space station is really a benchmark for

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how we can continue to explore the solar

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system i think a moon base is a very

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logical step on the way to mars it

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enables us to investigate many of the

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challenges we're going to face in terms

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of radiation exposure

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energy production

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and yet it's about the kind of safer

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distance if you like in the safer

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environment of the moon

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however the moon in itself is a

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wonderful place to set up a location for

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research uh there's a huge amount that

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we've still yet to discover about the

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moon it can tell us many a lot of things

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about the origins of our own planet

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after all it was part of our own planet

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at one time before it was uh struck

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also the dark side of the moon for

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example is a great place to have a space

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observation laboratory or telescope into

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into the rest of the solar system so the

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moon is a very exciting place i hope

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that we will see that as a next

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destination in itself and also as a

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tim there's a lot of interest in

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microgravity of course and this is a

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tweet from simon miller if you hit a

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golf ball theoretically on the iss how

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well that's a good question inside the

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space station uh we could probably get

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it about or maybe 75 meters before it

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bumped into it and end to end from the

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space station but uh

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you know of course we're in a fairly

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confined environment up here

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it would be great to do that experiment

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outside on the space walk and see how

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i've got a ball there i can see it

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floating next to your right shoulder

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when you give it throw towards the

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camera see what happens will it dip or

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you know

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everything up here just carries on going

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until it either bumps into something or

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if it's very light then we do actually

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have air circulation and so the airflow

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throughout the space station will keep

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things moving um which is always a good

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thing if we lose something we always

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know where to go we go to the vents the

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uh air ducts and that's where we find

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tim just time for one final question for

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you obviously your first time in space

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is it like a drug are you going to have

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to go back i mean this may be something

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you want to talk to your wife rebecca

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about before you announce it live on sky

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news but do you think this is this is

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it certainly is uh very addictive you

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know the the view from the cupola taking

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photographs um

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it is it's great to be up here it's a

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wonderful experience it's a huge

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privilege to be able to experience this

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as well

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i'm really happy the european space

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agency has got an excellent track record

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of flying its astronauts and after me

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later this year will be tom arpesque

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will be the last of my class of

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astronauts to fly and there are

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certainly plenty of other opportunities

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going into the 2020s with further space

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station research but also

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space flights into other areas as well

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so it's a very exciting time for a human

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space flight so i certainly hope that

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there's a there are a few more flights

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very best of luck to you tim and thank

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you so much for agreeing to talk to us

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and for asking answering all of our

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students questions here in the studio

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the questions from the children up at

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leicester space station and the

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questions from all the sky news viewers

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who've been tweeting in and emailing in

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over the last few days

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we've got to let you go now there's only

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15 seconds left on the satellite but

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thanks again from all of us here at the

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you're welcome it's a huge honor to

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speak to you and it's been great thank

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you for the wonderful questions and to

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everyone in london at the national space

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes our event

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thank you sky news london station we are