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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station i'm ready for the event

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motherboard this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is motherboard how do you

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i've got you loud and clear and i'm

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great thank you so much for taking my

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um so i wanted to talk to you a little

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bit about beam today and i was wondering

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if you can describe what it was like

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well beam is one example of

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new technology of course

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being brought to the international space

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station to prove out that new technology

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and of course it so it was a first it

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was a major first

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uh first in terms of uh its design

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and of course certainly on board the

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international space station so

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like like many first many milestones

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to be part of it and and i was honored

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get it up and running for its time here

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we used a small amount of air to get a

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rip stop or rip stitching inside and a

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mechanical device that would control the

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uh so we inflated it just a little bit

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it it took a little bit more force than

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now is the air inside the beam any

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different from the rest of the station

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when i first went in it was a little bit

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cooler and that just because we didn't

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and that was predicted and it wasn't

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over it wasn't uncomfortable or anything

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it was just a little bit cooler

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of of life on board the international

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ventilation up and running so we were

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beam anymore or less sensitive to things

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design but i'm certain it includes

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design concepts which would be a

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protection against micrometeorite hits

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the hatch open it's closed although we

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do have ventilation going back and forth

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hoses between the station and beam

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protection compares to the international

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how do you think a module like beam will

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the spacecraft that you're launching you

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things as you can however

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people a crew living on board you need

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open volume like you see here

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for the crew to live and work in so we

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opportunity perhaps in the future to

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destination in space to be able to

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volume you need the open volume inside

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know that you shared a really nice

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picture of the strawberry moon the other

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day taken from the space station

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how do you feel that social media has

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changed the business of being an

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the people of the united states and the

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partnership and entire world

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we're flying and the what we're doing on

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shuttle retired or since it retired i

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often get questions out in public

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settings that well i didn't know we were

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flying we're still flying and i say yeah

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and the public was largely unaware of it

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people aware of what we're doing up here

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certainly more in touch with the public

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making the crews known as well as the

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about a couple of the science

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experiments that you're working on right

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environment of space outside for a

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period of time and then brought back in

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the broadest uh study area that we have

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that concludes the motherboard portion

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of the event please stand by for a voice

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so you and alexia and oleg are going to

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crewmates uh your russian colleagues are

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guidance and navigation it will get its

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of things that everybody works with in

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life that gives greater capability so

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it's it's just a normal progression

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step-by-step advancement of technology

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and and performance

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for that vehicle

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well shift gears a little bit here i

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know you're probably getting tired of

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questions about the bigelow expandable

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activity module or beam as it's known

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but let me throw one or two at you i'm

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just curious what your impressions were

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when you went inside and what your

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thoughts are about

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that technology in general for perhaps

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making station modules more affordable

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or habitat modules for deep space

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missions

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uh you know more of a reasonable

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proposition i mean just what your

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well i was honored to be part of

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that operation to be able to go into

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beam and to get it outfitted

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for its time on the space station

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going in of course it was like entering

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a new car it had that new car smell

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it was the air was a little bit cooler

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than on board the space station

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but that's because it it wasn't

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environmentally controlled and it was as

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predicted and not uh uncomfortably cool

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just noticeably cool

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uh i think it uh it is a concept a

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design

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concept that holds great promise

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to be able to more efficiently launch

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elements of spacecraft or habitats going

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to a surface of another body

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for example

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on fewer using fewer rocket launches

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volumetrically efficient that is you

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know what like when i'm floating in here

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inside the laboratory module when this

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thing launched it's big and it launched

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on the space shuttle which of course is

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very big and it took many space shuttle

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launches to uh to get the space station

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up here

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uh and we want to volumetrically use

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everything we can uh on a rocket launch

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uh so but this wasn't filled this was

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empty space so we were launching empty

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space so

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the concept that the beam uses

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inflatable means that you can launch

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more volumetrically efficient and then

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inflate

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components to get that habitable volume

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that you need for crews to live and work

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and again changing the subject just a

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little bit looking ahead to the next

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spacex launch of course you've got a

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docking adapter on board and i guess you

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and kate rubins will be installing that

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somewhere toward the end of august in a

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spacewalk how are your spacesuits doing

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uh

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are they not ready to go given these

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recent issues you guys had with some

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well as far as i know we're on track for

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the spacesuits to to be

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operationally ready to support those

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spacewalks that we plan on doing in in

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the august about the august time frame

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i just completed routine maintenance on

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all four spacesuits that we have on

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board and and that went well

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and

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so so far they're holding up that as you

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know we've had some issues over the last

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couple years and that the teams on the

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ground have have done stellar work to

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work through those issues to make sure

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that we have that capability it's a

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capability that's very critical of

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course to supporting the ongoing life of

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the space station

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you know we're getting ready for the

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july 4 holiday down here and since

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you're the only american on board right

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now i don't suppose there's there's much

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you're going to do to mark the event in

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uh yeah we'll get a little bit of time

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off there's never a day here that's

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truly completely off there's always

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things to do

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but it's nice to have a day that's

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mostly unscheduled so you can spend the

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time

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doing the things that you want to do and

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also do a little bit of personal time

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and of course so i'll be doing that on

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july 4th i'll be communicating with

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friends and family on the ground

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to participate with them and celebrating

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the holiday and also even though this is

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i'm the only american on board in this

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international partnership we tend to

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celebrate each other's holidays together

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and to support each other in that effect

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so i expect good support out of my

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russian colleagues on the fourth of july

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hey thanks you know one of my radio

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colleagues was wondering if astronauts

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can ever see fireworks from up in space

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and i realized that you know the timing

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is everything you got to be over the

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states or something it's got to be

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nighttime you got to be awake et cetera

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et cetera but have you ever heard of

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anyone ever seeing fireworks

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from space or

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i do not re recall a case where somebody

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has been able to see it i was up here on

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a previous fourth of july and i did

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spend some time trying to get a sighting

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on fireworks and i was uh i was not able

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to do that and obviously as you said the

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lighting and the or the timing is very

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important you got to have clear weather

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it's got to be night going over the u.s

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and

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go over the spot where you can spot the

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fireworks uh depending upon our timing

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uh this time i'll certainly be looking

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out the window if we're over the u.s at

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night time to see if i can uh do that

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this time

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hey one last question jeff uh you know

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scott kelly logged 520 days in space on

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his four missions and you're going to

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exceed his record i think on august 24th

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and when you land in september i think

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you move up to number 14 in the world or

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something like that is there any

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significance to records like that in

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your mind or is that just something that

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for me it mostly comes and goes the

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numbers don't really

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mean that much to me

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the the content of

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of what we've done i think matters more

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and when people ask me about that in in

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my career i immediately think about the

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space station itself and i've been

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honored to be from end to end

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from the very beginning of the space

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station involved and then through midway

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and the assembly and then assembly

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complete and now and the full

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utilization of space station i'm more

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honored by that than the total time that

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i've been up here and it also gives a

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testimony to the to the international

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team that made this the orbital outpost

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uh

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so incredible and and possible

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thanks jeff appreciate it very much uh

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have a great rest of your flight and

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look forward to talking to you down the

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road

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thank you bill great talking to you