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station this is houston are you ready

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stations ready

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wheat ridge high school this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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a voice check

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station this is congressman ed

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perlmutter here with the students from

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wheat ridge high school how do you hear

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me

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loud and clear congressman nice to have

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you today and with all the students glad

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to do this

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commander

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i can't tell you how excited all of us

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are to speak with you today here from

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wheatridge colorado you're going to get

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a lot of interesting questions from the

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farmers so this is the wheatridge

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farmers

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and we have some very important people

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in the audience a friend of yours steve

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lindsey is here

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we have colonel harvey who was a

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tuskegee airman is here and we have some

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fantastic students who have great

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questions for you today we're proud to

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be part of this uplink and we're proud

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to talk to you

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an astronaut from the united states of

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so with that i'm going to turn it over

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introduce yourself for a second and then

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all right sounds great uh i'm uh retired

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army colonel shane kimbrough commander

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of the international space station

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um we have a crew of three on board

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right now i have two russian cosmonauts

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with me um here tomorrow we're gonna get

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three more uh crewmates so that's gonna

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be awesome to have another american a

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frenchman and another russian on board

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so it'll make our expedition 50 crew of

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good morning commander and welcome to

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our high school my name is gracie meoni

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and i'm a junior here my question for

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you today is what have you learned along

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your path as becoming an astronaut that

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well it's my whole career i guess kind

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of encompasses that question i've

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learned a lot about leadership i've

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learned a lot about how to be a team

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how to be a you know part of something

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bigger than yourself i think is a big

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thing i've learned along the way

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this space flight is amazing but it's

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not everything and it's not about me

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it's about the nasa team it's about the

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russian space agency team the european

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space agency team and the japanese space

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agency team so

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it's much bigger than any of us alone i

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hello commander my name is max harris

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and i'm a ninth grader

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my question for you is what are the

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biggest challenges that we face to make

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that's a great question it's a big topic

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these days which is awesome

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i think the biggest challenge is just

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trying to figure out how to get

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astronauts to mars and return home

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hello commander my name is caleb coyne

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and i'm a 10th grader here and my

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question for you today is how is being

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an astronaut influence your mindset and

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hello i am eleanor mang a 9th grader on

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your current mission what is the most

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interesting science experiment that

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that we're going to do on board we have

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about 200 experiments that our crew is

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months which is really exciting i've

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details on those because it's private

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information but those are always

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earth orbit and go to places like mars

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cabbage and that's going really well so

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senior and i'm curious as to how you are

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a very good question something we hope

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through severe trauma we would strap

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doctor and they would be walking us

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senior at wheat ridge high school i was

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wondering how do you sleep in

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comfortable for for each crew member

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half year process and it's about 40

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hi my name is jax voss i'm a junior and

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completely wrong and same with this

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flight so far so we are prepared to

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handle a lot of emergencies we get a lot

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of training most of our training for any

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emergencies with the vehicles or the

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trained the whole crew is and if

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hello commander my name is jacqueline

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get more oxygen put into our suit by

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hooking up to a to a cord and making

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that happen so that would obviously

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extend the life of the spacewalk if we

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needed it

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hello my name is brisa williams and i'm

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in the 10th grade

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do you believe that the private industry

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will provide an opportunity for to

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i absolutely do and uh a couple

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companies are pretty close they're a few

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years away i think from putting

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astronauts or people on board and

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sending them into space

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and i'm sure there's other companies

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down the road that are going to be doing

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the same so i'm really looking forward

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to kind of this next decade or so where

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private industry really gets involved

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with sending people and also

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other vehicles into space

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hello commander my name is isaac torres

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i'm in 12th grade and my question is

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what were your emotions the first time

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wow i was completely awestruck it's just

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unbelievable to see that for the first

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time

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and the good part about it is we

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actually experienced 16 of those

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sunrises and sunsets every day because

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we're going around the earth every 90

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minutes of course we don't see them all

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but i think when i saw my first one when

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i was outside spacewalking that really

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really blew me away it just made me feel

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very humble

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you can see the earth's atmosphere the

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thin layer that protects all of you down

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on earth

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from living and dying so it's very

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thank you commander

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hello commander my name is tj arbuckle

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and i'm a ninth grader here at wheat

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ridge high school my question for you is

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can you please explain how the

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astronauts on the international space

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station communicate with mission control

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yeah sure a very good question we have

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what we call space to ground channels

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and that's the formal communication now

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we do that through satellites that relay

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our communications

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back and forth from in my case to

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houston most of the time

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but like today we have mission control

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centers all around the world so

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typically the us astronauts will use the

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the second channel space to ground two

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we call it to talk to houston or to talk

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to mission control in munich where the

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european space agency has their mission

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control or in scuba japan where the

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japanese have their mission control

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center so we would use that second

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channel the the russians typically use

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space to ground one to talk to mission

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control in moscow now if we need to get

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everybody on the same channel and talk

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at once we would use space to ground one

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that's kind of the universal channel for

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everybody

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hello commander my name is colin warren

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i'm a freshman here at wheatridge i was

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wondering how does it feel returning to

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earth and landing in a capsule compared

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that's a great question and i haven't

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experienced it yet but i can tell you

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what i've heard um

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landing in a shuttle obviously was was

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really incredible and mr lindsay there

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can tell you he did it a lot more times

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than i did

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but uh it's really fascinating for me to

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to land on a spacecraft to run it down

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the runway kind of like an airplane

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that was really i think comfortable is

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probably the right word compared to what

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i'm about to do here in a few months

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when we come home

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it's a little less comfortable but uh

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the system that the russians have

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works we're under a parachute and we

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come down and we just land in kazakhstan

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kind of in my case it'll be in february

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or march so it'll be very cold out we'll

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hit the frozen ground probably covered

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with snow

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i'm going pretty fast so it's just kind

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of my my colleagues i think have said

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it's it's like a uh kind of like a car

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crash you just hit the ground very hard

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everybody in most cases is doing just

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fine so it's not a big deal it's just

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something very different than than

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people that flew on shuttle or used to

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hello commander i'm casey craim and i'm

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in the 11th grade given all the

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potential dangers that you have in space

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which one of those dangers scare you the

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well i guess i don't really think about

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that very much and that probably comes

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from a lot of my military training um

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i think i'm just geared toward to rely

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on my training rely on the equipment i'm

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confident and all that stuff uh and that

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prepares me for a mission that's can be

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dangerous whether it's in the military

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or here in space because

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both of those environments can can

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potentially be very dangerous

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so i don't really think about that i

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also have a lot of faith so

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i use that to lean on

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when things maybe would get dangerous

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but it you know inherently space flight

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is dangerous

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but i don't think about all the things

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that could go wrong

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hi commander i am theresa kennison an

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11th grader what physical activities are

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we have a great program now to take care

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of working out we have this machine

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called a red which stands for advanced

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resistive exercise device it's a machine

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that you can pretty much do anything you

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can do on earth like squats or bench

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press shoulder press

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dead lifts anything like that and you

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actually really feel like you're getting

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a workout you can get up to 600 pound

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load on this machine so obviously again

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things don't weigh anything in space but

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the

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machine can actually put a load up to

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600 pounds or so so i don't think i'll

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be lifting that much but uh it's

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incredible how much you can

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get going and build your strength while

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you're in space

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this was not up here last time i was

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here so it's really been great to work

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out on that we work out at least an hour

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on that every day along with an hour of

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cardio so we have a stationary bike

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which is to my left here i don't know if

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you can see that in the

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screen or not but that's a stationary

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bike and we also have a treadmill that

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we can run on so

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we we do the bike about twice a week and

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we do the treadmill about five times a

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week so we're in general working out

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every day about two to two and a half

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hours a day to maintain our our muscle

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mass and our bone density and bone mass

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hi commander my name is alex coulter and

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i'm in 11th grade are certain

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illnesses more dangerous when they are

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could you repeat the question i'm sorry

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are certain illnesses more dangerous

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i'm not sure i know the answer to that

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question we uh we do a really good job

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of quarantining the astronauts and

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cosmonauts before we launch um and in

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the case in our case we were there a

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little over two weeks in quarantine

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which means you get away from the

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general public and you're you're kind of

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sequestered so that you're not exposed

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to all the germs and things that people

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in the general public have so by doing

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that the idea is to come to space and

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not have any germs or not have any

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illnesses with you

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in most cases that is very true and it

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was true in our case but i have heard of

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a few cases where people brought a cold

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up or something like that

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but nothing really major that i've heard

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of anyway and so

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the danger of bringing anything on board

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into a closed environment like this is

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if somebody is sick then the whole crew

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is going to get sick pretty quickly so a

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little different than earth where you

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have the atmosphere in the air to maybe

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dissipate an illness from a friend or

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something that's that you're not getting

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too close with we don't have that luxury

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here on board the space station so we

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try to prevent all that by the

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quarantine process that i mentioned

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earlier

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commander hi this ed perlmutter again i

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just want to thank you for taking the

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time to speak to us here in wheatridge

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colorado

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um we feel very fortunate you know to

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hear that you're growing lettuce and

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cabbage just like matt damon did

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something he grew potatoes on mars

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we know that your training

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your desire

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will

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come in handy no matter what crops up

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and so we're just thankful that you

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serve our nation and that you're serving

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the future by doing what you're doing

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and we here in wheatridge want to give

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you a big thank you one

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two three thank you

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well thank you and it's been a pleasure

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being with you today i wish you all a

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happy thanksgiving and it's an honor for

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me to serve

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station this is houston icr that

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concludes the event thank you

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thank you to all the participants and

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guests from the wheat ridge high school

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station we are now reconfiguring audio

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for the deferred release and shane give

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us a call on two have some additional