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station this is houston are you ready

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we're ready for the event

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cbs news this is mission control houston

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please call station for a voice check

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this is bill harwood cbs news at the

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hello bill we have you loud and clear

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it's great to talk to you today

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hey it's great to talk to you you guys

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look great in the airlock

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before i get around to uh some spacewalk

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questions let me ask kate a quick one

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and spoken to her since she launched

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just wondering how the science is going

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how the how the research is treating you

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yeah actually it's going great uh the

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amount of research that we brought up on

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spacex nine is incredible here and so

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we've been having some pack days it's

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really busy but it's fantastic to see

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jeff remarks the other day how busy the

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the usos was we had all crew members

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here doing some kind of science

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experiment or another and just this

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morning we were growing some heart cells

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in space we're looking at cardiomyocyte

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function so it's really fantastic to see

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you know talk to you before launch i got

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the impression that that work was your

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idea of fun i was one of one of my

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standard questions they asked people who

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are up there for the first time is what

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is the most fun up there or maybe what's

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the biggest surprise you know in the in

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the reality versus versus expectations

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well i have to say my expectations were

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not very well calibrated for how amazing

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our planet is um

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you know you work in mission control you

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see this on the big screen all the time

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and it is still nothing compared to the

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actual breathtaking view of the planet

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so i was set a little bit low on that uh

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it's about a thousand times more amazing

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than i expected

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fantastic well jeff you guys are facing

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a pretty busy schedule the next few

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weeks uh heard today that uh the cygnus

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the new batteries for the solar rays any

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there the ground uh team is going to

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what the major change uh for us will be

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with cygnus slipping out of expedition

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a second eva so our second spacewalk so

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so tell me about that first spacewalk

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the uh the ida installation a little bit

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about what each one of you guys will be

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well the international docking adapter

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ground team will will pluck it out of

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it to a station uh along with uh some

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coordinated ground commanding to to

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drive the hooks uh to put it in its

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permanent position and that will enable

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those for those idas uh which was very

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very tedious work how how do you

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runs i saw you still have an awful lot

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going out the hatch i mean that's a

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that's a spacewalking's a far cry from a

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a research laboratory i would think

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long time that we've been in training

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ground that have helped us out helped us

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get ready they've watched me

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from a very baby junior astronaut get

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ready all the way to getting out the

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hatch and so it's just been really a joy

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to work with everybody to see this

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capability develop and we're adding

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the second eva on september 1st i guess

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that's to retract that radiator you guys

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tell me a little bit about the the works

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required on that one and what else

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yeah and that's actually a radiator that

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suni williams and aki deployed back on

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eva 20 and so our goal is to bring that

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this first eva what all the additional

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it's running it's a it's a really

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of a question mark in recent years

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question mark's probably the wrong word

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stacking up what's your confidence level

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confidence level that uh those guys are

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that you're right we had some issues in

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to put to put to bed if you will the

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risks associated with those issues that

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of 534 days i know you've said before

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that setting records like that doesn't

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of being part of the international space

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to blossom out to be very impressive it

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about how busy it was it occurred to me

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know thinking about the idea you guys

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size to seven which adds an extra person

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that to get an extra set of hands and

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research and as jeff's just said to to

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absolutely every extra hour that we get

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can juggle several hundred experiments

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in-depth experiments we're starting to

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completely explore the systems biology

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the space station so we're using all of

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microbiome analysis all these things

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interesting fascinating tech demos up on

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orbit and this is an incredibly

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productive lab at this point

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very good and jeff i think i've only got

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time for one more question so i'll

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squeeze in one about your landing you

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come home around september 6 you've been

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there done that before but is there

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anything you're looking forward to this

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i don't know i know you miss your family

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but food drink experiences what are you

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what are you looking forward to when you

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i look for obviously families first

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thing my wife uh she's uh you asked

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about the days

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of the number of days up here she's the

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real hero and all this uh putting up

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with me being up here that many days

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over the years but i look forward to

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that i look forward to to quiet

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just uh relaxing someplace enjoying the

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view enjoying the smells of earth all

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those things that we we normally take

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for granted you miss that when you're up

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here we have continuous noise up here

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from fans and pumps it's not loud but

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it's continuous so just those things the

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simple things in life good food anything

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my wife wants to cook me i look forward

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to that

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those kinds of things friends

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hey guys thanks a lot i'm out of time

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have a great flight and look forward to

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thank you bill great talking to you

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station this is houston acr thank you

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