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station this is houston on two for tomah

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yes i'm ready well i think i'm ready go

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ahead european space agency this is

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mission control houston please call

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station this is jews at the european

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astronaut center in cologne how do you

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this is tomorrow on board the space

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station read you loud and clear how do

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you read me

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we hear you very clearly we have some

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journalists here and

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who are prepared to ask you some

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we'll start right away with the first

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you've been here for several months

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what is your first

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question is how do you feel how is your

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please switch on your mic

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on your mic

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apartment apart from the fact that i

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forgot my microphone was adapted very

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quickly

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we were not ill at all

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everybody feels extremely well

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finally working

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it seems extremely natural after a few

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hours we get orientated

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oriented and the three-dimensional

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effects worked very well

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a little bit swollen perhaps because

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flight of

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blood and body fluids toward the skin

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but this is normal after a few weeks or

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months this will resolve itself

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we are adapting slowly to the iss which

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is immense

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we have to orient ourselves a little bit

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but all of the people here on this

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mission are veterans who know everything

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by heart

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since monday i've been working pretty

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very good

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i don't know if you heard me i asked you

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whether you sleep while up there in the

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i beg your pardon no i hadn't hurt i

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sleep very well

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i sleep but like a baby it's very uh

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agreeable here we sleep by floating

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attached to the wall our little uh

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individual cabinets or cubicles are just

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around the side of the

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camera you can't see it so we're

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attached to the wall our arms float a

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little bit it's extremely restful

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i find this to be once again rather

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natural i feel extremely well

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and uh

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for the better well

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might as well we're going to be doing

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i would like to know whether the space

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now listen it's much better than i'd

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we were very familiar with

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the distribution of the modules of the

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equipment because we've trained for it

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for seven years i've been working for

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seven years on this so we know every

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nut and bolt

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but what's striking here is the freedom

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the feeling of freedom we can do pretty

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much what we want here

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also the manner of working

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our tools escape for example or the

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microfiber phone escape otherwise we'll

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find it in a very different place from

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where we left it which happened to me 30

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years ago or 30 seconds ago after i

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but it's a new way of working which is

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much more comfortable than on land

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i'm not even talking about the view

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unfortunately the view

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i've not been able to see much of the

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but this weekend i plan to spend a good

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part of my time in the cupola

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and to take some nice photographs and

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so we start about six o'clock in the

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on land and then at 7 30 we begin with a

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major conference with all of the control

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we are helped and uh framed by the

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control center which responds to our

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activities to maintain the station for

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sure that no undesirable bacteria are in

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the water system

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i've already engaged in certain

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planned for my mission have already

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another experiment having to do with the

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there's right here between my feet there

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all of this scientific equipment is

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scattered pretty much all around that's

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what we spend most of the day on also we

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on it but uh we came actually prepared

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our uh repair equipment so we think that

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it should the toilet should work very

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well from now on uh so i hope petra from

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reuters television i have a question in

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have you spoken to your family and

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friends yet and how is it for them to

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so yes i did i did speak to them

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actually we're very lucky because here

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we have the the iphone so you can call

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pretty much any number on the ground um

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very impressive so it was it was hard

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them than for me because from inside the

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rocket is just like in the simulator it

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shakes a little bit more and you feel

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the g's but other than that you're

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pretty much used to it

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the sky so it's good for them to finally

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see me and talk to me and it makes it

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makes the the whole thing a little bit

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more normal so that was very reassuring

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like being on a business trip

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actually it's just a six months

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absolutely unbelievable business trip uh

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but that's what it is and i get to talk

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to them as often as i can and um this

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conference so i'm hoping to show them

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close to me i can call them every day

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uh they saw me disappear on a rocket out

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into space it was

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speak to each other so i almost every

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family and friends and sometimes during

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the week weekend we have a video

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just as i'm showing it to you in a

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incredible adventure of your life can

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that proceeded to take off how did they

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special well it was rather special

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have been accustomed to launching mental

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space for many years

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beginning which is rather interesting we

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take our last uh dinner

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checked out by the doctors we're fully

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disinfected from head to foot so we

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don't bring any viruses into the station

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building we test our spacesuits speak to

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our family through the glass

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russian leaders of the program and then

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we say goodbye to our families we then

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take off toward the rocket it's a long

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long climb it seems like interpretable

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actual soyuz and then we're helped to

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descend into the capsule by russian

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technicians we set ourselves

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and install ourselves in and then we

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check all the procedures uh pre uh take

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special pianist that uh by the way which

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soyuz and then when the first stage

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the third station it's like a kick in

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the pants and we begin to float off and

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maneuvers the third day we had the

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associated with

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reaching this space station at the space

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television or photographs we're actually

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friends and so that was been quite an

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very well arranged we have this

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cables and equipment in every direction

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i asked them where or can i find that

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there are millions of places to look

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with millions of objects behind panels

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and

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there's no use

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looking around for those things and i

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call control center they tell me well

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you find it exactly in that particular

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spot and so i open that drawer and i

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find uh exactly what i need

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it's amazing to be able to find that we

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arrive very precisely what we're looking

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for and every day begins with searching

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out the equipment they sent us pretty

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much all around the stations by

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following the various procedures they

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tell us to see look to the left to the

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right you'll see your equipment here and

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there

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it's very important to put them right

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back to where they belong

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and

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that's part of what the uh

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equipment the

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the teams or the crew's responsibilities

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to put everything right back where it

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goes if you put something into the wrong

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box as we did yesterday for example when

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we're trying to repair the toilets

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i had to be very careful to put

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everything right back where it goes

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after which if we don't do that things

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get lost

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so it's a challenge but it's a challenge

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that i think uh happens every day by the

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by the crews and especially by the

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control center

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to be sure everything's in this place

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hello thomas um how if at all could i

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ask you has your sporting

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background your rugby and your judo your

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enthusiasm for those two sports how has

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that in any way helped you as an

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astronaut in both in physical terms and

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but it's a it's a great question i think

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i think um

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i think there's really two factors um

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so i like team sports because they

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taught me how to be a team player and

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that's that's something we we have to

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use every day in our job as an astronaut

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it's not the only job obviously lots of

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jobs require

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good communication leadership

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followership

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and things like that so so you learn

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this

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not at school most of the time but in

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all the activities that you're going to

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do after 5 pm um so that's one thing for

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me and then he gave me the taste for for

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trying the test for challenging myself

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um a taste for i don't want to say

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competition because it has a negative

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connotation but a taste for for

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overcoming my my um

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my limitations let's say so judo in

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particular was huge for me because uh he

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teaches you respect as a kid it teaches

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you patience uh it teaches you uh that

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effort is valued and it's it's not about

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talents it's about how much how many

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times you're going to repeat this or

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that move and you're going to finally

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master it it's how much you train so

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hard work patience

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respect that all those values i got from

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from judo and rugby so it's been huge

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for me i'll try to talk about it a

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little bit more along the mission i

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think we have a few events um on the

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plan

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in uh in

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in coordination with that so uh

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so yeah it's been huge for me i hope to

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talk about it more i hope to inspire

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maybe kids to to do their best uh not

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only at school but also in their after

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thomas the question has having to do

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with sport

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you've played rugby and judo the

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question is how sport has contributed to

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the values that uh the abilities and

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qualities that you have been able to

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develop through sport and how does this

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help you in your current work

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well in fact sports have been uh

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very uh for me they've been a major part

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of my youth

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activity even today you have to stay in

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good physical shape to be an astronaut

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but that's not the most important thing

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the most important thing is that it's a

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team sport like rugby that teaches you

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how to play together how to be a team

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player how to communicate

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it teaches you how to

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well to manage your frustrations how to

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be a leader

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and sometimes how to be a follower as a

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american friend say you can't always be

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the leader but you do your best and this

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these are the kinds of things that i

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and also to set myself a challenge and

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to meet it this is all very important to

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the professional life as well

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because

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you need to apply determination i've

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learned that and judo in particular has

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taught me such things as respect and

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patience

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a taste for work

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like

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certain ethical values

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certain movements also that we repeat a

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million times before we master them you

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cannot expect to master the first time

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you must not become frustrated you have

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to accept defeat you have to work hard

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in all these ways you learn that in

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school yes but i think you also learn a

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lot of that in sports in

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activities which are part of teamwork's

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associative after school

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we'll talk a lot about that during the

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mission

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about school because it's very important

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it's important that

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kids that youth do the best in school

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that's sure but also i believe

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to be interested in everything to be

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open because that is uh the model that

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makes you succeed in life

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thomas have you brought any sporting

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yes there's a few so first of all we do

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um two hours and a half of exercise so

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have uh we do running on the treadmill

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the tram is actually horizontal so we

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run on a we run on the wall like this

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not here in columbus but uh you know in

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another module we have a fantastic

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weight machine so obviously it's not

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weight it's uh it's air pressure but uh

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every day we we lift on board the iss so

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it's not the most fun sports but we have

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to do it to stay in good shape otherwise

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you lose muscle mass you lose bone mass

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and you're simply too weak when you come

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back to space so thanks to all these uh

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these these new machines that we have on

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the iss we come back you know in a good

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shape um

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but also i brought a couple more fun

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items there's a there's a rugby ball uh

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there's some other things that that i

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cannot disclose right now because

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because i'm hoping there'll be some

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other opportunities to talk about them

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but even here on the iss i just happened

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to open a bag

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before this activity and i found a

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variety of balls there was a basketball

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small basketball

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u.s football a small soccer

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european football ball so so i think on

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the on the weekends on the sundays and

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when we'll be relaxing a little bit

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there's a there's a good fun in in

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do you think that 48 hours spent on the

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soyuz help you to

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acclimate to the iss even though it is a

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smaller

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space hello

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i'm not really able to give you a good

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answer because i haven't been able to

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make a comparison but maybe in the soyuz

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we're a little bit uh sort of

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on the ceiling on one side the soyuz is

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so small that you have to

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really use every available space and so

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we spent a lot of time to do a little

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become accustomed to a deal under three

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volume in a three-dimensional space we

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had to eat we had to live and there was

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three of us in that small soyuz space

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it's like driving in a small car for a

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long very long road trip but maybe that

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helped us i don't know

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regarding your question all i can say is

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that i'm lucky with my colleagues that

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everything has worked out well

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about 30 of the people are a little bit

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ill it doesn't matter it disappears

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after a few days but we didn't get

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space sickness

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in the small soyuz volume uh it wasn't

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the most comfortable quarters but we're

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fine

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i don't know how michelle would answer

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to this question but i'm glad that i

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we wish you a very nice day in orbit and

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we'll see you soon

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[Applause]

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thanks thank you everybody

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and thank you on behalf of all the

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station this is houston acr

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thank all of you that was great

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the european space agency station we are