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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station i am ready for the event

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cnn international this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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station this is cnn how do you hear me

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good afternoon cnn this is tim peake on

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board the international space station i

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wonderful well welcome to our humble

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studio all the way out there in space

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let me ask you what was it that inspired

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you the most to do what you're doing now

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was it that fantastic first moonwalk by

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you know there's been many inspirations

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throughout my career and yes as a small

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boy i looked up to the stars and and

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often wondered about our place in the

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universe and the solar system and was

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fascinated by space um and then as a

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teenager it was a passion for aviation

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that took over and the first time i ever

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sat in a glider i knew i wanted to be a

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pilot i was just very fortunate that i

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was able to fulfill my dream of becoming

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a pilot

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and then later in life of course having

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worked my way up to being a test pilot i

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found myself in the right time the right

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place i had the qualifications that the

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european space agency were looking for

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and i was able to to fulfill that early

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well it is indeed a rare privilege to be

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out there it's an amazing thing to just

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be able to talk to you what did you feel

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it's the most incredible feeling the

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first time i saw the earth was just a

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few uh moments after insertion into

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orbit in the sawyers capture we had the

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main engine cut out and that's quite a

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jolt you get launched forward into your

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seats and then suddenly everything

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starts floating and you realize you're

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in weightlessness you're in orbit around

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planet earth and i was able to loosen my

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straps and let myself float up out of

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the seat so that i could have a look out

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of my window on the right hand side of

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the sawyers and i saw ourselves just

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before we went into the night part of

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the orbit i saw planet earth shortly

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followed by a moon rise and it was just

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the most incredible feeling to be you

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know to be in orbit and see the planet

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is launch scary i mean do you ever feel

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scared when you're actually you know on

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you know we've trained so long and so

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hard for that moment and we're just

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focused on our procedures and making

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sure that everything goes smoothly

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through the through the launch sequence

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so there is really no time and no place

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for any fear or apprehension at that

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stage you're simply just executing the

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plan but i was very conscious of trying

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to also absorb every feeling every

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emotion you know knowing it's such a

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special event so that i could kind of

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and i actually did a diary that evening

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after launch so that i would remember

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everything that i felt during the launch

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and it was just the most incredible

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feeling and that that feeling of power

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and acceleration as the rocket

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accelerates it's just addictive and i

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felt myself being pushed back into the

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seat especially during the first stage

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in the third stage and it really was a

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well i wonder if you can talk and

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execute some movements up there at the

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same time every child's fantasy is to be

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able to somersault in space and do all

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those things that you do

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and while you're doing that i wonder

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what are the most profound philosophical

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and personal lessons that you've learned

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gosh uh you know some of the the things

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you learn up in space um really is is

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what we do in training as well is just

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to be uh methodical and to to work

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slowly and accurately that's the best

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thing you can do as an astronaut

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you know we're we're really in a very

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privileged position up here we have an

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enormous responsibility with regards to

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the science that we're trying to do

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and so we just have to try and be as

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professional as possible but we've got

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the wonderful support team from mission

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control down in houston uh and in munich

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and in russia and in japan as well and

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everybody is helping us on the ground to

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execute the plan so really it's all

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about teamwork and you're you know the

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most important thing is is being a good

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team player and finding your place in

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that team and i'm going to do a

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somersault like you asked me to while

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excellent good good good because i want

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to know beyond weightlessness and

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proving that yet again what was the most

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important scientific uh experiment you

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conducted or or the the contribution of

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you know it's very hard to kind of pin

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it down to one most important experiment

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there's been over 250 experiments during

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expedition 46 and 47. some of the most

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enjoyable experiments are certainly

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they're more hands-on for the astronauts

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for example airway monitoring where we

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used our own airlock that we normally

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use for space walking we used it as a

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hyperbaric chamber so that we could

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reduce the pressure in our lungs and

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investigate airway inflammation that was

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quite exciting also we've done some

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flame combustion experiments up here

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which are exciting there's a lot of

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medical research going on in

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things like protein crystals i think

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that's fascinating research and will

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have huge benefits for people back on

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so really the science falls into many

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categories as a pilot and somebody who's

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technology um you know some of the stuff

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composite materials in our furnaces as

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well investigating new materials that

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are stronger and lighter and will

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benefit for example our aviation

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industry that that's very exciting to me

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um you obviously as as as a bridge have

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got an enormous amount of attention

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you've run a marathon you presented

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adele with an award from outer space but

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it was actually a british woman who was

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the first british astronaut in space

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friday night actually we

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celebrating her 25th anniversary since

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her sawyers tm12 mission 25 years ago

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and to the mere space station and so it

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gagarin along with her crew and it's now

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she she really you know she paved the

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and i'm just very happy now that the the

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uk government is funding human space

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flight and i'm able to come on this

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mission as a member of the european

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space agency which is a great step

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sentence the uk and europe so i have to

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international partnership and that's

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the strongest messages that we have in

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in the in the life of the international

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space station is that it really cuts

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through all barriers it's such a strong

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partnership and of course the uk will

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agency that won't change at all the

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european space agency is still part of

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station um but what i would say is of

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course that we can we can do things in

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space that we couldn't possibly do as

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one nation and this is the model that we

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partnerships uh in order to share our

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well well in my last few seconds where

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next for tim peake where else would you

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like to explore in our you know outer

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well you know the the space station has

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still got an exciting lifetime at least

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till 2024 and there's there's so much

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excited to be looking forward into the

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mid to late 20s i would like to see us

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return to the moon i think that there's

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an awful lot that we can learn in terms

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of having luna exploration missions and

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having a permanent lunar habitat which

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mars mission which has to be the the

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real near-term goal for human space

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fantastic major tim's peak thank you so

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it's been a real pleasure talking to you

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and thank you very much have a great

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station this is houston acr

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thank you cnn international station