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tim now can you hear me it's right here

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am i in the itv news studio

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good afternoon yes i can hear you loud

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great very very good to have you with us

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tim um

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it's been an extraordinary time for you

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uh up there i'm just wondering has the

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whole experience of being up in space

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you know the whole experience has been

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everything i hope for and even more and

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there no words can really uh describe

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what it's like to uh to experience a

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rocket launch uh to to go into space and

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to see that first sunrise

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as you orbit the planet and everything

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that i've managed to achieve in this six

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month mission has just been incredible i

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was very fortunate to get a spacewalk

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early on we've had a hugely dynamic

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visiting vehicle schedule lots of uh

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resupply vehicles coming uh we've done

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over 250 science experiments in the six

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months i've been up here so it's been a

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remarkable mission i'm hugely grateful

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for all the help and the support that

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i've had from everybody to make this

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well obviously a huge amount of activity

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as you were just describing and uh

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testings and and many other sort of

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things in that time have you been able

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to reflect on the fact that your

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presence there the british astronaut has

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really caught the public imagination and

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what you make of it what do you think

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yes you know we're actually quite

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isolated up here and so i have felt a

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bit distant from everything that's going

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on back on planet earth which is not

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surprising i guess but it was something

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i always wanted to do before the mission

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was to share this as much as possible

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possible with everybody uh it's such a

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privilege to be able to go into space

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and such a unique opportunity and so

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i've tried to reach out to encourage

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school kids of all ages in all sorts of

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to achieve that with a very ambitious

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education outreach program so i'm just

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delighted that so many people um you

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know in uk in europe have joined in with

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this mission and that uh hopefully i've

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been able to try and inspire some uh

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some kids of our next generation of

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young scientists and engineers to look

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this whole mission and your involvement

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with it was a real seen as a real shot

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in the arm for uk science is that

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something you're really going to persist

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um you know that we do continue to

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encourage uh a younger generation to

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take up science and engineering subjects

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for our future we face a number of

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different problems and science and

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and so it's certainly something i intend

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well speaking of inspiring the young

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facebook one from dan savage from

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northampton who's nine years old and he

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asked if you had a choice would you stay

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in space for the rest of your life or

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it's actually a difficult choice uh no

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friends and so i'm looking forward to

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seeing them again and with a young

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family as well being away for over six

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months is is particularly difficult but

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uh quite frankly you know being in space

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experience and i can i can see how um

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scott uh kelly and mikhail konyenko who

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see how they enjoyed themselves for the

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whole time and i can see how we're going

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to do these longer missions in the

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future that take us to mars and

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are you prepared for the enormous amount

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of tension you're going to get tim as

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you say you've been isolated up there

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working away in the space station but

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you left relatively unknown you're going

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to come back as someone really in the

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public eye do you think you and your

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family are going to be prepared for that

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being recognized every time you walk up

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probably fortunate in the fact that um

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i'll actually be living and traveling

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still away from the uk quite a lot so i

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don't get recognized in houston of

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there which is quite nice to have an

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funny things that people say when you're

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earth and when you're on earth you long

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to be in space uh there are you know

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i mean we live in a very artificial

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environment artificial lighting constant

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time with you tim um just quickly i mean

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in you're the first official brit to be

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sent to space in a few months time

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ministers will be having to decide as to

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whether the uk government continues or

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will fund another mission like this how

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you know it was uh you know

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the human spaceflight program in 2012

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agency ministerial and uh i certainly

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uk's continued involvement in hugh and

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human space flight i think it's vitally

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important what we're doing now we're

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looking ahead to the not just the

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exploration missions and as i mentioned

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before going to mars as well and the uk

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wants to play a serious role in in human

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spaceflight missions into the future so

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and in all of that tim um there's this

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whole debate here as you may or may not

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be aware about our involvement and role

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in in europe but talk about your career

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european space agency how important has

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cooperation with europe been for these

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kinds of projects and britain's role to

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trivial event we have to decelerate from

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punishment on both the spacecraft and it

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really good ride so i'm just looking

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well have a really good ride and thanks

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so much for taking the time to talk to

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us here at itv news tim that's much

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appreciated thank you very much indeed

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many thanks indeed great great talking

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hello dan i can hear you loud and clear

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great stuff if you're ready tim we're

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ready to go so i'll start asking the

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tim thank you so much for joining us on

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bbc breakfast this morning so under

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three weeks to go until you return home

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daily basis but of course i am looking

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forward to seeing friends and family

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tim what's the highlight of your time in

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space being if we were to have this

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the line what would be the one thing do

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more than i imagined but if i did have

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space walk and it would be the first

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moment that i kind of came out of the

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the airlock and uh tim copra my nasa

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colleague and myself we went outside and

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did that space walk it was an amazing

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much from down here that's the tuxedo

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for the bricks i can see the lovely ball

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behind you for the launch of the six

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nations you ran the london marathon

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there must have been just on that side

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of things so much practical planning

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things there with you but also all that

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that's absolutely right and you know

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to share this mission as much as

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possible with as many people as possible

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space but i really wanted to try and

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reach out to all ages to enjoy this

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mission as well and that involved an

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enormous amount of people on you know in

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space agency in helping to plan this

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mission out all of those events that

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educational programs that we've had

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million school children during this

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mission which is just absolutely

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see you tim you've been smiling but i

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would imagine six months away from your

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family there must have been some dark

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times up there as well sometimes when

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you even though you're busy and you're

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trying to keep yourself busy it must

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you know actually we all keep a very

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positive attitude up here and that's

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something that we're very conscious of

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of doing as a crew but also mission

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control are very conscious of and they

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help us with that as well so there

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haven't really been those those moments

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you describe of course i've missed my

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friends and family but the

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communications up here are so good these

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days that i have the ability to phone

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them and once a week we get to do a

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video conference as well uh so even from

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that perspective it's not not been too

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bad uh so and the workload you know they

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keep us busy up here and we're too too

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busy to really to let emotions get in

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well you say busy you've been involved

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in a whole series of experiments while

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you've been up there and you yourself

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are

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the focus of those experiments as well

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lots of people have been sending

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questions in about how you how your body

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has been affected because people who

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spend a lot of time in microgravity they

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say often get what they refer to as bird

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legs and a puffy face how has your body

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been holding up with all the time you've

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it has been interesting really you know

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you mentioned the puffy face i

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definitely felt that in the first month

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up here this kind of pressure in my head

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puffy face but that's disappeared and

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i've actually kind of lost all of that

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excess body fluid which i'm going to

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need when i get back to earth so in the

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last few weeks we've been myself and my

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crewmates are returning we've been

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working hard on the exercise devices

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getting ourselves into physical shape

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for coming back to earth but you're

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right there will definitely be a period

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of rehabilitation and readjusting to

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living in earth's gravity and probably a

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first couple of days will be quite

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i wanted to ask you about that i suppose

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you could call it a re-climatization

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program not just being back on earth but

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the attention

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that's that's going to take some getting

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used to and uh you know

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you say that but actually you do feel

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quite isolated up here on the space

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station and uh although we have access

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to the news and uh occasionally on the

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internet as well um you know we don't

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really get the the feeling of things

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that are going on back on earth that

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much so that will certainly get some uh

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tim what do you think is next for you we

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were speaking to helen sharman um who

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was a trailblazer of course in your line

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of work many years ago we spoke to her

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just last week and she said the hope is

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the great hope is that tin isn't the

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last that we continue to do this and

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there's a really bright future for for

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absolutely and i can i you know i fully

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intend to continue my work with the

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european space agency representing the

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uk uh within human space flight and i

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hope that the uk continues to

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participate in human space flight as

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well into the future we've got such an

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exciting times coming up we've got

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plenty more missions to the

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international space station with its

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life out until at least 2024 and then

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we're looking uh very strongly towards

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lunar missions in the mid 20s mid to

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late 20s as a stepping stone onto

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missions to mars as well so i want the

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uk to be a firm player in those human

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spaceflight missions and exploration

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missions of the future and there's no

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reason why we shouldn't be and i

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certainly hope that i'm not the last uk

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astronaut to fly in space i hope there's

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many uk school kids today who can

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fulfill an ambition one day of becoming

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some quick fire ones to finish off with

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um lots of people sending their

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questions in for you tim steph would

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like to know what is the first meal you

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well the unhealthy version would be

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pizza the healthy version would be a

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nice fresh salad with some fresh fruit

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go for the pizza and julie would like to

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know i'm sorry diane would like to know

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um what is your greatest concern about

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returning to earth is it the celebrity

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um you know that is a concern as well i

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mean my main focus when i get back of

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course is spending time with the family

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and uh and and seeing my friends and my

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family again uh and there will be a very

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busy travel schedule of course there'll

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be lots of medical experiments all this

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data that i've been collecting up here

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in space carries on for at least six

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months up to a year in some cases after

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the mission so there's going to be an

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awful lot of work to do but uh my first

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priority is to spend some time with

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sounds very wide and one more from

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adrian he says

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you've seen some remarkable things from

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space we've seen some of your wonderful

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photographs as well having seen all that

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is there a place or maybe some places on

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earth you would now like to go and see

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in person having seen them from 70 miles

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that's a great question there are so

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many places i'd love to go and see um

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and everything has just been incredible

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it's been wonderful to actually watch

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the planet changing seasons you know

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seeing the northern hemisphere uh going

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from snow and ice into through spring

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into summer

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and in the southern hemisphere watching

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places like patagonia you know

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absolutely stunning uh countries and

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areas of the world that i hadn't seen

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before

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so there there are plenty of places i'd

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like to go and visit probably too many

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tim it's been wonderful to talk to you

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on bbc breakfast we hope to see you back

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on terra firma very soon and we'll sort

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that'd be much appreciated great talking