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ksbj radio this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is rochelle and carter at

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ksbj radio in humble texas how do you

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hear you loud and

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clear well thank you so much for

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spending time with us today uh we have

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so many questions for you commander

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shane kimbrough how is it that his

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connection is clearer from space than

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when i'm calling my mom in oklahoma

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that's what i want to know

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i hear that a lot

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well i think the main question after

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black friday is done is can you see the

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best best buy to go to for the shortest

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line from where you are we need a flat

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well unfortunately not our cameras are

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good but they're not quite that good

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it hit all seriousness after

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thanksgiving was over and i know a lot

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of people according to the griswold

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calendar have put out the christmas tree

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lights can you see that from space are

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you seeing more and more lights outline

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well we can't really tell the difference

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between a city at night uh now or in

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june or in december so

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um even though a lot of people put more

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lights out we can't really see it from

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up here i think it's just fascinating

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where you are that we're talking to you

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in space right now how did you get

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started with all this because everybody

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grows up and they say one time it's

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either firemen or astronaut so how do

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probably the first step is to get a

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great education you need to do that in a

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math science engineering or some kind of

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technology field

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um and in my case i was fortunate enough

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to go to west point and study aerospace

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engineering there and then i went to

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georgia tech to get my masters a few

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years after that in engineering as well

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so that was a good first step to set you

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up you also need work experience in my

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case it was in the military

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so they do look for you know

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operationally minded folks from the

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they're scientists and doctors and

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teachers so they come from a wide

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variety of backgrounds

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well now that we have a rocket scientist

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at our fingertips and we can literally

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ask him anything we need to know

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is a pre-lit christmas tree the way to

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go or

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i'm probably gonna get in trouble here

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but uh i'm more of a real christmas tree

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person even though my wife just bought a

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fake one since i'm gone

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i will say i don't think that's rocket

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science i think you can figure out what

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it's much easier i guess to do the

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pre-lit oh my goodness well how what is

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it like to be up there during the season

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where you want to be with family for

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thanksgiving and christmas and um how

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it's been a couple hundred days or more

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now it's been about six weeks for myself

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and my crew i have two russian crewmates

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we've been here about six weeks another

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crew just arrived a little over a week

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ago to join us so now we're a crew of

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um and it's great to have it was great

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it just made it more special to have

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food with turkey and stuffing and

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cobbler and those kind of things but we

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also share traditions of going around

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the table and saying what we're thankful

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we got to watch some football as well to

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make it a complete thanksgiving

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so and we'll do a similar thing at

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christmas time we will put up some

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decorations for christmas

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little more like home and of course we

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miss our families but uh if we got to be

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somewhere this is pretty cool place to

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be if you're not going to be on earth

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it must be a weird thanksgiving because

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all the food is like toothpaste that's

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real right it's turkey toothpaste and

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pouches now and we have you know uh

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fresh food we call it you know like

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tortillas and you know bonus food can

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things like if you like peanut butter

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um so we have a lot of the real foods

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that you eat today the food is much

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better than it used to be

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i love that he said he's going to put up

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holiday decorations literally all you

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have to do is release them and they go

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is that is that what you guys do yeah

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ours will be filled with velcro to make

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sure they don't float around everywhere

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it's kind of like what we do at home

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so you are from uh killeen i believe

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originally and so you've been around the

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houston area quite a bit what is your

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well houston's just a great city and it

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has it can offer everything it's a great

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place to raise kids we have three

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teenagers right now so we've raised them

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since they were about two years old in

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so it's been fantastic the schools are

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all the opportunities with sports and

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theater and whatever you want with

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restaurants downtown it's just a great

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city to be a part of

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nasa's there yeah that's kind of cool i

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and and this is the 40s a lot of people

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get excited that's good yes well as as

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they should be we've both been to the

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museum and now we're talking to an

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astronaut so i don't know

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what your kids think about having a dad

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that's in space but my kids right now

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i'm like at the top of the cool mom

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house i'm just dead which is really the

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way i want it and uh

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humble which is great

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now you uh have been a ksbj listener you

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oh gosh i don't even remember i'm sure

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back in 2000 when we moved here we were

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just looking for a christian radio

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station and that's the one we found and

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have enjoyed listening to it ever since

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it's great to have you aboard if i can

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say it's great to have you aboard

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yeah i am honored to be part of your

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team thanks oh brother

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you're going to be a part of this team

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for the 48th anniversary of apollo 8

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circling the moon christmas time is that

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special moment when they read the

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christmas story from space

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anniversary of of this happening at

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christmas time which is exquisite it's

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amazing my mother and father-in-law's

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we missed it i mean we literally called

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them a day late can you do the superman

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thing and while you're flying around the

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moon you could like maybe fly around the

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we could go back inside because i am

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really appreciate it

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appreciate it yeah i'll see what i can

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do don't hold your breath on that one

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um on a side note what is the

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craziest question you've ever got

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for being an astronaut because i'm sure

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that people think that you do this and

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thing what's one question that you've

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is hey are you coming home for christmas

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like we can just come home on a weekend

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that we when we go to space we go to the

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moon and we haven't been to the moon

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clear the air on those

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commander shane do you have a favorite

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we can remember you in that moment you

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and your family every time we listen to

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i have a lot of them so i'll get in

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trouble if i just mentioned one but the

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whole passion team christian stanfield

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crowder

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brandon heath casting crowns

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i got a bunch of them so

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there aren't many i don't like let me

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put it that way we gotta wrap up here in

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just about a minute but i just want to

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ask you why do you love doing what you

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serving my country

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incredible opportunity that i was given

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to be able to do this in

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quite a unique environment of course

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it's not it's not easy there is there is

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some there are many challenges and just

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the separation is a challenge for

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people with families and kids and

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we're working through all that and

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god's plan down the road but not quite

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sure what that is right now like like

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well we really appreciate you your

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whether or not the kids see that right

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merry christmas to all of you and thank

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all right merry christmas houston