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station this is kathleen schwiller vice

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with a huge group of excited high school

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commander thank you so much for joining

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us today at national geographic we're

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glad to be with you look forward to the

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for you and i want to get in as many as

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in 10th grade and then we'll just keep

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going after tyler they'll come up and

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yes hello tyler lee

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and uh my question is how does nasa

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uh very good question i don't think nasa

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we can do it safely and get them there

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safely as well as returning them back to

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hurdle and that's what what nasa is

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astronauts can get there and return

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hello my name is cheray baltimore and my

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question is since humans have not been

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yet sent to mars what is the most

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challenging aspect of sending an

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because there's so many difficult things

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you may know that we're about 200 miles

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earth and the moon's around 200 000

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miles away and then mars is around over

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20 million miles away so just that in

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being able to keep the astronauts alive

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return trips so having systems uh on the

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spacecraft that allow us to

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stay healthy by working out by eating

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properly and those sort of things

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my name is shawr and my question is

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based on your previous research

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experiences what is the main topic you

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are interested in researching on this

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with an open mind and i've really

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enjoyed everything i've gotten to do so

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far and it's been a wide range of things

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we've gotten to do several experiments

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lettuce in space so that's kind of cool

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here in three or four months when i when

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people your age the exciting part is

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people your age are gonna be the ones

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you've had any unforeseen complications

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failures and systems but they have

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biomolecular sequencer where they're

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laboratory like i am the training i've

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looking and trying to find other life

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vehicle is behaving it's really an

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amazing complex

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football field with incredible systems

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hello my name is samuel debro and my

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models or people did you have in your

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job at nasa and and if you want to be an

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military i was in the army i was a pilot

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in the army flying apache helicopters it

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was a great avenue for me to

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put in an application and eventually be

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accepted again it's not the only route

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like i mentioned earlier in the previous

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question but it is a good route for um

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the if there are spacecraft that we're

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going to fly like the next vehicles that

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that we're going to be developing here

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in the next few years they're going to

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have commanders and pilots very similar

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to the space shuttle had a few years ago

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so in that case we will draw from the

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military to get our pilots and test

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hello my name is maguloy lavo drama

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and my question is as a children we

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dream about exploring space is it

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it's even more than i imagined living

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and working in this really unique

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environment is just something that's

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hard to to put into words really i could

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try to describe it to all of you but

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it's just not the same as being here and

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being able to float around and you know

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i can go sideways or upside down and it

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just doesn't matter

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so it's it's kind of cool

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but that's just one that's just one

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aspect of it

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being able to float around

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again looking out the window is so

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unique and so special that uh if i get

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back down here um i love doing that

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doing the science and research that

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we're doing up here

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is way more than i ever dreamed i'd be

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doing um and the cool thing about all

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the science and research is we're doing

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all this to help everybody back on earth

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it's not for us it's not for me it's for

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humanity so that's really cool that

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okay commander my name is taramana i'm

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back again i had a second question

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my question is what do you recommend

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academically to prepare one for becoming

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i'll kind of add on to the earlier

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question again math science engineering

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technology those kind of

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subjects are what you need to focus on

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and you need to do really well in them

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okay you can't just take them and not do

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well if you want to eventually be an

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astronaut or eventually be a successful

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person in life so work really hard get

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help when you need it we all need help

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along the way i'm not the smartest guy

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but i work really hard and i was able to

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accomplish a lot of my dreams

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my name is brianna kirkpatrick and i was

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wondering being in space for a long

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period of time there are everyday things

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on earth that limit our space i mean

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that are limited in space

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how can you how did you adjust to the

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well i think i get better every day at

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the daily things you know we get trained

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a lot like i mentioned earlier on all

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the systems and everything on board but

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you don't get trained on the things that

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you do all every day like eating and

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sleeping and

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brushing your teeth and those kind of

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things so those kind of things you kind

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of have to figure out on your own

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and just remember everything floats up

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here so you got to manage a lot of stuff

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if you have a packet of food and you

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have a spoon

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and you have scissors to cut it open you

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can't hold all those things at the same

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time so you got to manage them you you

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put velcro on everything and you hold

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things down so those kind of things are

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fun they're unique um

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you've probably seen some videos maybe

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on youtube of astronauts eating in space

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and it's always a good time with doing

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those kind of daily routine things one

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thing a lot of people don't know is we

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don't have showers up here so

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that's something i do miss and it's a

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daily thing that you guys i think get to

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do hopefully every day

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but something we don't have here so we

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kind of just wipe down and i'll be

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looking forward to a good shower here in

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hello commander my name is larry based

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upon the plant plant experiments on the

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spaces station and the knowledge we have

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in mars do you believe it is possible to

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grow plants using non-traditional

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yeah i actually do because i've actually

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planted some stuff like i mentioned

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earlier and i'm seeing

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seeing the sprouts already and here in

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three or four more weeks i think we'll

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see some some real products of lettuce

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and cabbage that we're growing so that's

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pretty cool and if we can do it here i

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think there's no reason we can't do that

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sort of thing on a planet like mars

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commander i promise this is my last

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at what moment in your life did you want

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well i talked a little bit about earlier

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i was probably five or six years old

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when i first saw the men walking on the

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moon and that kind of sparked my

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interest

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it wasn't you know i think everybody at

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my age back then wanted to be an

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astronaut so you know eventually i went

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to college and actually when i went to

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college at the united states military

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academy at west point

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um i figured that that dream of mine

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being astronaut was gone because i

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didn't realize you could be in the army

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and be an astronaut so i just went there

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i went to serve in the army as a pilot

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and eventually i realized you could do

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both

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so that kind of flame

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in my brain kicked in again and i really

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wanted to be an astronaut so i got lucky

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enough i applied a few times and finally

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they accepted me in 2004

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commander this is chris albert again

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from national geographic we have a

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couple other questions that we collected

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i think we have about a little over two

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and a half minutes left can you tell us

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a little bit about the science

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experiments uh that you're doing up

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so we got several what we call payloads

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going on yesterday we did some 3d

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printing which is kind of cool in space

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so i pulled out an element that was

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printed there's another one in there

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today i think that i could pull out at

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any time

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the japanese have a combustion module in

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their chamber which i was working on

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yesterday so that's pretty cool

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technology

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we have uh let's see what else the

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plants that i mentioned that were

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growing in the european module

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that's pretty special there the module

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i'm standing in now is the u.s

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laboratory

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we also have a furnace

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up here where i'm pointing uh one thing

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people don't think about

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because we're so used to being on earth

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is

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here in space like

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this isn't just a wall to my right or to

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my left there's a wall above me and

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below me so there's drawers and

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experiments

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below me above me and to my right and

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left so we can use all this space

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just like it we can only use the you

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know the sidewalls on earth we can use

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all the volume here in space so that's

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kind of unique

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and so there's there's a lot of there's

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a lot of russian experiments as well my

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colleagues i have two cosmonauts i'm up

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here with right now they're down on the

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russian segment doing a lot of

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experiments as well so the total product

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and all the stuff that we're going to do

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over time is going to produce really

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huge benefits for humanity

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can you tell us a little bit more about

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i don't know if you can see this device

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to my left here can you guys see that

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that i'm shaking or not

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okay so that's our stationary bike that

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we ride we do that a few times a week

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for exercise up here we have to exercise

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about two to two and a half hours a day

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about an hour of weight lifting of

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course nothing weighs up anything up

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here but we have a great machine called

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a red

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that we get on and you can crank up

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really heavy loads and you can do squats

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and bench press and shoulder press and

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crunches and curls and anything you can

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do on earth you can pretty much do on

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this machine so we do that for about an

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hour and then we ride this

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for aerobic activity we ride the

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stationary bike or we have a treadmill

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as well

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that we do for about an hour each day

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and that keeps our bones

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and bone density and muscle mass and

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muscle density

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very similar to what it what it was when

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so i think we're about out of time i

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just want to ask all of our students

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here if you guys could give a big

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yell mars to the commander and then

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we'll say thank you so ready on three

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and thanks all right best of luck to all

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of you is great chatting with you good

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luck

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thank you so much commander thank you be

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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thank you to all participants and guests

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from national geographic station we're