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programs

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i don't know

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okay

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you showed us

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how does it feel to be away from your

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launch less than a month from now we're

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pretty excited i have to say it feels a

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little bit different as prime crew than

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it did at backup we know that launch is

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coming very soon

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but i'm extremely confident that our

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crew is well prepared we've had years of

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training by instructors at both nasa jsc

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as well as gctc here

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in russia and

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our international partners at jackson

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esa as well and csa

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you just finished your final

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qualification exams and your you trained

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in both the soyuz tma series and of

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course your own ms series vehicle that

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you'll be flying what were some of the

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challenges that you faced during your

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qual exams and during your overall

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training

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we've switched vehicles between the

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backup and the prime launches but it's

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actually been really a great chance to

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see the teams pull together put the

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procedures together and watch everybody

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really quickly transition to this new

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vehicle so it's been a great process

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going through final exams and and seeing

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our trainers the ground personnel and

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our crew really work together on all of

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this

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and finally you have a lot of friends

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and fans around the world and for people

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who want to follow you and your mission

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how can the public follow you on social

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media yeah well i hope i'll be posting

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to nasa astronauts when i'm on board so

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that's the twitter handle you can look

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that up there as well as iss research

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and if you go to the nasa.gov home page

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there's a variety of different ways to

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follow both our expedition web page as

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well as social media resources

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kate rubins international space station

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expedition 48 and florida 49 flight

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engineer and peggy whitson veteran

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astronaut flight engineer of expedition

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50 and commander of expedition 51 in a

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few months from now

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peggy you've been to the international

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space station two times do you have any

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advice for kate rubens will be going up

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for her first time i've got a lot of

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advice for king

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we've been sharing a lot of stories

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lately to try and make sure she has

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everything i know which isn't

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necessarily the whole story but at least

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i'll try and give her as much insight

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information as i can

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the one thing i know for sure is she's

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going to love it on board station and

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she's gonna love doing all the science

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it's gonna be a great i know she's gonna

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enjoy it

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and for for peggy you flew on a two-day

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rendezvous to the international space

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station and kate rubens will be doing

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the same thing as well so

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what thoughts do you have for her as

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she's making that two-day journey

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through space to make things a little

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bit easier or help it go by before she

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that's my best advice

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and lastly do you have any thoughts for

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the the next generation of explorers and

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particularly young women who might be

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thinking of getting into careers in

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science technology education arts and

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math

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well obviously both kate and i are big

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believers in the scientific route

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there's lots of different ways to become

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an astronaut whether as a scientist an

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engineer

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there's lots of different ways to become

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an astronaut

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probably the most important thing uh is

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to pick something in one of those fields

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that you really really enjoy and be

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excellent at it

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okay how about you yeah when i'm out

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talking to school kids i i say basically

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the same thing which is that you have to

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be passionate and interested in what

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you're doing every day and that's the

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most important thing wherever your

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career goals and dreams take you if you

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are excited about what you're doing

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every single day and you want to wake up

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and do that more than anything in the