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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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nbctoday.com this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is nbctoday.com how do you

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i read you loud and clear how about me

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loud and clear thanks for joining us

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we know it's my pleasure to be able to

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talk with you today

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my pleasure as well we'll start with our

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first question from our 30 seconds to no

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segment here for uh commander copra

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what are the house rules on the

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we know it's a great question and the

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house rules are simple

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and uh they're also probably unstated

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because they're part of the culture of

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the astronaut corps and the cosmonaut

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corps and that is

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be respectful and courteous to your

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crewmates pick up after yourself and

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then build a good relationship and

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maintain that with all the different

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centers around the world that support us

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okay great and now we'll bring in uh

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flight engineer jeff williams

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for our morning routine questions

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and uh we'll get started with what time

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do you guys wake up and how can you even

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the only reason we can tell it's morning

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in our work day is because of the the

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time it is so we set our alarms to wake

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up we work on greenwich meantime

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and typically get up at six in the

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how do your workouts in space

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differ from the workouts that you do

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we know one of the differences is that

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we are scheduled every day so there's

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really no excuse to uh to not work out

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one of the main differences i brought my

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harness here we have a treadmill and we

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have to strap ourselves down to the

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treadmill with this harness so that's

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one of the biggest differences besides

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that lifting weights it feels almost

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identical to what we do on the ground

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and we have a bicycle here that's

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isolated from station but it feels like

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okay great i mean

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you're away from home for so long you're

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away from earth for so long i mean do

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you have any mental health routines that

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you do in the morning to kind of help

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oh i don't know if we have any specific

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routines in regards to mental health

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we're all um we've been checked out

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pretty well pretty thoroughly before the

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flight anyway uh we're just we're very

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busy up here we're very focused on

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getting the work done

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and also from a personal point of view

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there's a lot to enjoy up here that's

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very unique

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to look out the window and view the

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earth to do all the things that you

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might imagine you can do in a weightless

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there's no real issues in terms of

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when it comes to some basic things like

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cutting your hair or shaving or clipping

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your nails i would think that

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could be a little bit difficult i mean

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how do you guys do basic grooming things

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you know it is different and you have to

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make adjustments you know so clipping

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your nails you probably need to use a

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vacuum cleaner or uh do it in your event

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then use a piece of tape to collect it

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i use this uh you know a few times a

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week probably not every day but you know

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all the the whiskers stay in the blade

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and we use a new blade every time and

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then uh cutting hair we have a vacuum

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cleaner sort of like

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a floaby sort of device and you cut your

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hair and uh you know we're not that

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great at barbers as barbers but we do a

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what is the most radical adjustment in

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your morning routine

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uh i don't know if you'd describe it as

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a radical but

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on earth we get up at home typically

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like most people and you do the things

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that you do at home before you leave the

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house and then you pull out of the

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garage and head off to wherever you're

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going for the day usually it's to work

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your workplace here we get up we come

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out of our crew quarters and we're in

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our workplace so

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we can uh we we look at the what's on

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the plan for the day as soon as we get

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up uh of course we have breakfast and

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that kind of thing but we're really we

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never leave our workplace so that's

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are there parts of your morning routine

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on earth that you keep the same out

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there up there in space to kind of

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you know i'm not sure that uh i keep any

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parts of my routine the same to remind

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me of home but there are some things

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of coffee in the morning you know maybe

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reading the emails see if you got some

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messages from overnight from friends and

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family and those are pretty consistent

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life is very very similar to the earth

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in terms of the pace of work we have a

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long work day as jeff mentioned uh but

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of course there's things that are

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radically different the fact we're in

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zero gravity and and when we do have

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what time do you actually eat breakfast

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not inclined so much to eat breakfast

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i'll have coffee as tim mentioned coffee

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is very important

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for most of us so i'll have have that

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typically it's a few minutes after six

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o'clock or oftentimes i'll wake up a

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little bit early i mean

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i have that habit on the ground as well

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maybe get up at between 5 and 5 30 have

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coffee

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kind of get my thoughts together for the

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day and then and then maybe graze a

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little bit for breakfast or graze

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through the morning whenever you get a

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and i know part of your work day up

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there is you know doing different

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experiments and tests and things like

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that i mean is there a favorite

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our routine is uh is varied and so every

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week is going to be a little bit

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different sometimes it's very

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maintenance oriented and we're fixing

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things that are broken or routine

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maintenance other times it's a brand new

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experiment and so uh

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sometimes those only run for a few days

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or maybe a few weeks i had an experiment

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in a glove box here in which it was a

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combustion experiment and there were

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flames here inside this confined area so

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that was pretty entertaining to be able

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to burn things in space that's probably

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what type of food do you guys eat for

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breakfast and i guess do you have any

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food i guess you could say we uh we have

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some food that's ready to eat where we

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just put it in the oven heat it up and

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then open up a package most of the food

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actually a drink container uh our

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coffees for example are a container like

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this and we add hot water

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shake it up a little bit and then drink

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other food we have is dehydrated and

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we'll inject hot water in it let it sit

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for 10 minutes or so and then cut it

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a lot of people will wake up early to

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see the sunrise what's the view like for

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you guys when you wake up early and look

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you know it varies in fact uh you know

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you talked about routines i really enjoy

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getting up in the morning and if i want

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to really start going i'll look at at

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world map it's a program we have that

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shows us where we are on the planet and

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it's very easy to get excited about that

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next photograph that you can get and so

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uh that's probably one of the things

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that i enjoy doing when you first get up

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in the morning and you can look out

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the window and it's always going to be a

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little bit different because our orbit

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is changing orbit's staying the same

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actually but our view and our place on

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all right thank you so much to commander

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our pleasure nice to chat with you

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station this is houston acr thank you

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