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station this is houston are you ready

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station is ready

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moxie productions 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 rory kennedy with moxie

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i have you loud and clear on board the

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yes it is very cool

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that's correct

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it's nice to speak with you peggy and a

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huge honor thank you for taking the time

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no problem at all this is a lot of fun

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being up here and it's uh great to try

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and share the experience

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thank you

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so how how is it up there how does it

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well you know i thought maybe because

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i'm a little older and

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things have changed it's been nine years

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since i'd flown eight years since i'd

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thought maybe my attitude would be a

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little different

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if anything i think i'm enjoying it even

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that's fantastic they need to interrupt

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oh they need to tell you something peggy

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apologies please um use your on off

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okay how was the soya's ride up there

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peggy that's when our crew was last with

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actually the soyuz liftoff was even

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smoother than i remembered it being

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the two days on board

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the soyuz waiting to get to the space

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station that was almost as boring as i

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remembered it would be my crewmates were

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a lot of fun to chat with but it is a

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there's just not that much you can do in

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the soyuz it's pretty small space

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well i imagine it's uh nerve-wracking

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with all the times you've been up there

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well there's always a risk associated

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with space flight but that's just part

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the job part of exploration there's

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and it has to be something that we try

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this isn't you know a simple job and

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it's always very dangerous and risky

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so tell me about your activities up

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there can you help us understand what

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your what you're up to and and what

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amount of different scientific

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one that does combustions an experiment

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that looks at combustion

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and so we've spent some time

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troubleshooting that trying to determine

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uh what is wrong with the rack system

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that i can't remove the cartridge it's a

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it's a very complex piece of hardware

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have a huge variety of different things

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on the needs and the priorities that are

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uh it's always fun though uh every day

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space flight so i get a kick out of it

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every single day

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i bet you do and how how are the um is

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the impact on on you and your body are

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you are you feeling that i imagine it's

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symptoms of being in space they call it

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space motion sickness but i really

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had been so long that my body might have

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uh i feel at home that place is a lot

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bigger homes a lot bigger than it was

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isn't that amazing gosh it's so fun to

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think about and how about looking down

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at at earth how's our how's our planet

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looking i know we've elected a new

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president since you left so you probably

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maybe you just want to stay up there for

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our planet is still just amazing if

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i maybe forgot how much it actually

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glows it is just so beautiful it's hard

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earth too and how important it is to

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protect it do you see the impact of the

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outline of the atmosphere uh and it's

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atmosphere covering the earth and it is

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size of the planet and that always

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resupply mission that was uh sending you

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there it's it's a huge amount of time

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think i'll miss a lot and i'm going to

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be very excited about contributing to

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the science program up here well listen

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it's an honor to speak with you and we

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appreciate the the personal sacrifice

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you make to be up there

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to put yourself in a very vulnerable

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position a very exciting position too

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but for the sake of

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humanity and exploration and and taking

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us into the future and helping ignite

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our imagination so it's a huge honor to

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speak with you and good luck with all of

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your work and we'll be thinking about

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you as you go 17 500 miles whipping

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yeah it is a great job and i'm honored

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to be here

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all right you take care of peggy be safe

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station this is houston acr

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thank you to all participants with moxie

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