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we're happy to greet you

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according to the specialists the weather

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and there's a traditional meeting spot

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cosmonauts and astronauts

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this is where we first met

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international cruise international

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and i'd like to thank you and

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congratulate you on the successful

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tradition wants you to have the

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souvenirs that would remind you about

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your landing

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the russian aviation team would like to

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congratulate you on your return to earth

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but they're cooperated

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the skies were clear

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the sun was shining you saw it yourself

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the search and rescue team and all the

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other forces were at the ready and so in

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it's so pleasant to see how hospitable

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thank you very much everything went

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i think it was smooth

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i'd like to say thank you

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for meeting

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so the hand over on board the station

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yes normally one monkey leaves

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a ceremony

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the handover

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one crew takes over from the other crew

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and we also ring the bell

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bring the spell the space bell

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the commander who hands over

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says something

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rings the bell

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that's when it's assumed that the next

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so the traditional

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ceremony the cruiser

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safe one words

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the crew that leaves

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saying bye for now

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i got lots of new sensations new

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and they will stay with me and they've

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probably been the greatest impression

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of course we are happy if this is useful

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everybody who

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took part in this press conference

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wishes you

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the sweetest recovery

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and speedy meeting their friends and

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all right take two

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nasa's jeff williams back from 172 days

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in space welcome back to earth glad to

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have you back how it starts off how's

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that ride down

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thank you it's great to be back uh the

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ride is uh as amazing as ever as i

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remember it before

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uh of course you leave station it's a

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there's a it's a bitter bittersweet time

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leaving station saying goodbye to our

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friends

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um and knowing that we're gonna not uh

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we're gonna miss the experience

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but it's uh at the same time you want to

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get back for your family to get back to

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see everybody that you haven't seen for

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for months and months the ride down

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the entry is

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just amazing it's so dynamic

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to see the fireball form outside the

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capsule and you're coming through the

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fireball and pulling up to four g's and

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and then the parachute opening sequence

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is the longest 20 or 25 seconds of your

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waiting for it to come open

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and then of course

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it was a great relief to uh hear the

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search and rescue right away

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i think even before the parachute

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opening we had contact with with them

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and they spotted us immediately

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so it was it's always comforting to

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drift down under the parachute to have

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them watching over our shoulders so to

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uh so that we can better anticipate

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impact on the ground of course when you

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impact the ground it's a it's quite a

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quite a ride as well

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so you now have more time than any other

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nasa astronaut in history where's that

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where's that ranking on your list of

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personal achievements there's a lot of

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well i never aspired to that but it's

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when i'm asked that question

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i what comes to mind is not the personal

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achievement as you put it but

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more of the

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the achievement of this entire

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in the building of this magnificent

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orbital outpost we call the

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launch elements and

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participation in it and how well it went

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together overall even though there were

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challenges along the way

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and seeing the the science program

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that's that's what comes to mind it's

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the achievement of the of the entire

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and you've been you've been part of and

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you've seen the station literally grow

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from its infancy into where it is today

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and even in this increment you guys

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international docking adapter what's it

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like to see it still growing like it's

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still not done uh it was great it's uh

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it has a future i

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of command

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a little bit about

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the fact that we started this in the 90s

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expedition one got there in 2000

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we've had continuance human presence

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it's 2016 now there's a bright future

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for many years going with plans going

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and of course as you mentioned the

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international docking adapter opens up

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the front door again for new vehicles

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um and my point was we're already in the

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second generation people that are

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working in a program and now we're

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looking to the future that it's going to

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cover a third generation of folks just

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on our crew

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you know so even on the crew we had two

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partner sites

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i see people that have worked

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the entire program

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and then there are people that you know

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count of months or years that they've

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worked in the program

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so uh that that's significant i think in

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the history of human space exploration

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well you're back on earth what are you

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gonna miss most about space

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well of course everybody always misses

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the view you never get tired of the view

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of the earth uh in all of the

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infinite number of

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details that you can see in

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what's on the surface and the lighting

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but i'd also say i'll miss the crew

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the camaraderie that we and the

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experience that we shared on board

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uh i've been blessed over the years with

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with good crews uh every one of them um

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but this one had a special chemistry i

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think about it i mean we

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so i will miss that as well all right

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well nasa's jeff williams glad to have

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you back successful mission welcome home