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good

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bill gerstenmaier the associate

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administrator for human exploration

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built um

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18 years

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since first element launch from this

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very complex

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two launches wrapped around the landing

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in a four week period what does that

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tell you about how far this program has

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come in almost two decades yeah it's

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absolutely amazing when when i think

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back to the beginning of space station i

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didn't think of all the elements and all

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the work that's come together to end up

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with this wonderful space station on

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orbit and then to see this pace of this

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two launches and the landing in this

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very short period of time here in

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kazakhstan is just absolutely amazing

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the teams are really focused they're

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really working hard behind the scenes to

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make

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demanding set of work really effective

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and and i just can't say enough for the

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partnership and the teams and the folks

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that are coming together to make all

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this happen

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peggy whitson hardly needs any

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introduction to human space flight an

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iconic figure in her own right

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she's flying again what does she bring

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to the table here over the next six

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months of what will be a very

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challenging pair of increments

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yeah again we have a lot of activity in

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front of us you know we're going to do

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the the htv launch and the battery

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change out peggy will play a key role in

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that there's a lot of research in

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science going on board station so a lot

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of activity for her to really get it up

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to speed and start doing work so we're

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looking forward to having peggy and her

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crew on orbit

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to get the crew size up to six and to

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really really start showing what this

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facility can do in terms of research

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potential for every one of us here on

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the earth

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kirk shireman the iss program manager

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kirk

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it's hard to believe but uh

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we're wrapping a second launch around

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the landing within a four week period

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what does this say about the russians

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preparation for all of this plus the

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impact it has in promoting uh the

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program and keeping everything going

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it's it's really important to execute

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what we've been uh what we set up and uh

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we really need to have this crew on

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orbit to accomplish all our research so

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we're very happy that they're they're

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launching here the fact that we've had

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two launches and a landing here in the

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last month is just fantastic a very uh

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very experienced team excellent team

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they work very well together

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and and we're happy to be part of it

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let's talk about the partnership for a

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second wrapping up almost two decades

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since first element launch 50

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expeditions into this program now uh

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your thoughts on uh where we've come in

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the last 18 years or so yeah it's just

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amazing of course we just celebrated our

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16th anniversary of human habitation on

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november 2nd

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i was fortunate to be here on

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november 20th 1998 when

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the fgb zarya was launched from from

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right here is a few miles away on the

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cosmodrome it's just amazing to think

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back all the things that have occurred

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all the flights all the assembly all the

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research that's come that's gone on and

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now we're celebrating the 50th

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expedition on board iss so truly an

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amazing time

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we're very very excited about what this

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crew is going to be doing on orbit a

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full a full suite of experiments they

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over 300 experiments to do 89 of which

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are brand new have never been done on

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iss and so we're looking forward to

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when we see all these people working

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together from different we have either

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kazakh the russian the american flag but

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also the french flag we are european

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space agency what does it mean all these

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people working together in a time where

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tensions in the world are growing

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well i think it's very important if as

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astronauts you fly to the space station

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you look to our planet and you see that

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there are no borders

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uh and so it very clearly shows here as

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well that despite all the difficulties

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that we have on our planet people still

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come together and can work together and

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can achieve great things and i think it

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should be an example for everybody on

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this planet

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yes

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we are all part of a of an international

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endeavor

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for the peaceful future of of humankind

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and space

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is an excellent place to work together

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to find