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station houston are you ready for the

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keigo tv this is mission control houston

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station this is kgo tv how do you hear

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kgo we have you loud and clear happy to

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thanks for talking with us this morning

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i want to address my first question to

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kate who's our hometown astronaut uh

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folks back at your high school and at

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stanford are awfully proud of you how do

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you feel about all the support you're

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getting from back home and about the

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school assembly you're going to get to

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well it's really fantastic to know that

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folks at home are supporting us we're on

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this orbital outpost and we circle the

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globe all the time but every time we

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have a pass over the u.s and over

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california i try to make sure and look

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out and wave a little bit to everybody

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okay this was a long road for you

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getting to be an astronaut i heard you

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had to learn russian learn to fly a

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fighter jet how long did you have to do

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all that and how are you rushing and

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well it's about a seven year process

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when we first get to nasa and we do take

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a lot of language training that never

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russian colleagues and part of our

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training does involve aviation it's an

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excellent preparation and excellent

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back here on earth you studied hiv is

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the research you're doing in space going

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to help us understand viruses and and

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that sort of illness in a different way

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than what we were able to do here on

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earth and and what are where are you in

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are understanding how viruses in the

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immune system interact and there's

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actually a really interesting phenomenon

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virus reactivation in the human body so

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undiscovered things there's a lot of

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immunology research and we're just

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almost a month

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uh how are you guys uh enjoying it i'm

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yeah there's no denying that it's

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absolutely fantastic up here

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everything is is surprising uh it feels

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like the laws of physics have either

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changed or been extremely reinforced and

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so i'm having a great time a lot of this

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is new to me

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awesome now while in orbit can you tell

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us about the work you guys have done so

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far and and what you guys are currently

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well the work is ongoing we've had

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continuous human presence here in the

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space station for going on 16 years now

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and of course many of those uh early

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years were spent uh assembling this

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magnificent orbital outpost now it's in

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the full utilization mode so it's an

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orbiting laboratory we've got a lot of

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experiments going on and they're always

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coming and going so we're doing

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something new across the spectrum of all

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the sciences of course this is a big

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complex orbiting laboratory that needs

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to be maintained so we spend time

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maintaining it we also spend some time

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repairing it when things break

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and occasionally like we're looking

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forward to in a few weeks here we get to

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go outside do a space walk and do those

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same kinds of activities

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either repairing or maintaining the

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station in this case we're going to be

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adding a docking adapter

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for future

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crewed vehicles

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very cool now do you guys operate on a

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seven day work week do they give you any

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yeah so we actually work um about a five

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and a half day work week we get a little

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bit of free time to look out the window

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and see the earth we're working pretty

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long days when we're up here there's a

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lot of work to be done there's really a

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fantastic schedule for us of research

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there's hundreds of experiments that

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we're doing on board every day and so we

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want to put the time in and make sure we

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get good data and good results and

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there's always a little bit of

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maintenance work to be done like jeff

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said but it's pretty enjoyable when you

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can float upside down and sideways to

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get your maintenance work done

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very cool now there's been so many

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advances in space history what inspired

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well for me i think certainly i grew up

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in the apollo era and i was old enough

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to remember the apollo 11 moon landing

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so that certainly was an inspiration but

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i first realized that it was possible

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for me when i was at the military

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academy at west point i read the book

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the right stuff the first army astronaut

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general bob stewart was selected

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and of course i was going to i was

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anticipating a career in the army so i

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knew it was possible as an army officer

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and that's when i set it as a goal i

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think it was 1978 79

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and it took me until 96 to be selected

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yeah and when i was a kid ever since i

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can remember i had a list of career

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goals and astronaut was one of them

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and it wasn't until i was about in high

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school

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that it it seemed like maybe astronaut

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wasn't just an absolute

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uh number one career choice that was

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going to happen so i let that go for a

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little while and then applied really as

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soon as i had the minimum qualifications

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can you tell us about some of the

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preparation you guys went through to

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yeah we do a lot of training on the

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ground so it's years of training before

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we get assigned to mission and and we

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fly and uh it's a it seems like a kind

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of a grab bag of training it's really

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this pretty diverse set of training but

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each element really comes to play once

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you're on board the space station so we

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do things like russian language we do a

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lot of aviation training and flying we

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train for eva we train with the robotic

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arm and so you end up being a specialist

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in a whole bunch of different areas it's

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a lot of fun on earth but it's really

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fun to see how it all comes together

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when we're doing our actual execution of

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the mission on board i was also add that

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this is in an international space

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station with uh

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contributions from russia the european

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space agency japan canada and of course

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nasa so we end up traveling to all those

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places and training in those

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environments which is a

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pretty

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experience as well also up here we can't

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call the plumber or the electrician or

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even the the emergency medical team if

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something goes wrong so we get training

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in all those areas as well

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wow see it's like a

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literally a one-man band with every

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well i would say a six-person crew

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a six-person team along with a very

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extensive uh

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ground team in houston in moscow in

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munich germany and scuba japan as well

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yep very cool all right now we have some

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questions from some of our fans

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um elizabeth l would like to know what

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was the most surprising part about being

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on the space station

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or what is

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and something that you maybe didn't

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well nasa has prepared us really well

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but i think

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nobody can fully communicate to you what

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it's like when you see the earth and to

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be passing over all these different

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places in the globe so just as an

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example for today uh jeff showed me the

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himalayas and and uh how the earth uh is

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is got all of these different dimensions

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when you start getting the mountainous

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structure

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we looked at the aurora i saw a

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meteorite going through the atmosphere

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for the first time so there's really

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nothing quite to prepare you for all

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these different sites that you see even

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though you can do a lot of studying on

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very cool now ayla asks after spending

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time living in space do you think it

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actually will be possible for humans to

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inhabit outer space

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and

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when do you think that's going to really

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well i think we're inhabiting outer

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space right now

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for six month durations anyway and scott

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kelly of course stayed up here for uh

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just under a year

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and we we will inhabit will you know

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with the moon i'm sure will be in the

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future

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of course mars is the ultimate target

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but earth is very unique and that earth

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it provides all of the things necessary

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to support life

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in this destination here in the station

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as well as those others that i mentioned

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we have to bring the provisions to

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support life with us from earth you know

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the air we breathe the food the the

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other supplies that we have all come

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from earth

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so it's

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i guess you could say uniquely

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provisioned but certainly it's possible

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to inhabit places like this we've shown

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it for going on 16 years now

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very cool

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now i'm a total conspiracy theory

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tinfoil hat wearing mob lunatic so i

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have to ask the question you know do you

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guys believe in intelligent life and

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have you ever seen anything that made

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certainly you see things once while you

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go what was that but never has it

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been

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even a possibility of say the the

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classic ufo that you see

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folks talk about or aliens or all that

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to answer that part of the question no i

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think

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those are

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um

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all tales

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hey well guys thank you very much for

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your time and uh

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appreciate all the work you guys are

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doing and that concludes our space book

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thanks so much it was great to talk to

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station this is houston acr

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and thank you kgo tv in the history