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station this is houston are you ready

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for the event

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georgia institute of technology this is

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mission control houston please call

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station for a voice check

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station this is jason vader from the

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georgia institute of technology how do

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hey jason read you loud and clear nice

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to talk to you again

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you as well shane i uh i'm digging this

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just for you

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well uh so happy anniversary we are

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exactly

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two months from when you actually

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launched into space how's the mission

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the mission is going really well

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we're expedition 50 now as you may

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remember i was expedition 49 when i

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launched but that would only lasted

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about a week because my other crewmates

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departed here a week after we showed up

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but my expedition 50 crewmates uh peggy

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whitson and tomah pesquet and oleg

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showed up

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about six weeks after we got here

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i didn't know i guess about a month

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after we got here and ever since then

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we've been expedition 50 and we'll be 50

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has it i mean it's been two months

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you're about halfway through it has it

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gone by fast do you can you believe that

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yeah i'm trying not to keep track of

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time but it does seem like it's flown by

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pretty quickly um it's already almost

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christmas which is hard to believe and

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2017 will be here in just a few weeks so

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that that's kind of crazy to think about

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we have a lot of stuff coming up that's

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going to i think really make the time go

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quickly we have two spacewalks in early

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january that we're planning right now so

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uh gearing up for that already so

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that'll make the time go quickly as well

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what's um i've seen you grow lettuce

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you're grabbing spacecrafts with robotic

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have really piqued your interest and

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well the last week was the first time

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i'd ever captured another vehicle with

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the robotic arm that was pretty special

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when the japanese htv six showed up

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really just huge beautiful vehicle and

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uh was able to capture that with the

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canadian robotic arm that was a real

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thrill and being a part of that team

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it's not just me it was a whole team

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doing it on the ground as well as my

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crewmates here on board so that was

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another thing that's really peaking i

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think all of our interest is just

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looking out the window and taking

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pictures of our beautiful planet and

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different places around the world that

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we may not have seen before that are

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really strikingly beautiful um even

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though we hadn't had not thought about

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it before

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what what is that like when you're

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looking out is it is it hard to figure

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out where you are you just remember back

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to social studies class and go well that

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looks like italy so that must be rome

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things the countries but the cities i'm

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not so good at and some of my crewmates

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are really good at that we help each

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other out we also have a great

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application on our computers that shows

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towns and everything so we have a lot of

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of the world that we were not familiar

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let's talk a little bit about that

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actually and i see people floating back

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and forth what's it like being up there

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with a crew of six and so many different

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nationalities and language what are

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those interactions like and how often do

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cosmonauts and myself and the other crew

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a french astronaut so very diverse

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typically the astronauts will eat all

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our meals together the russians

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cosmonauts will eat all their meals

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friday nights and saturday nights to

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kind of just relax and enjoy meals

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our crew interacts of course we see each

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other every day and we make sure

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everything's going well on each side of

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on our side doing all of our tasks and

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let's let's talk about the the space

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walks that that you referenced earlier

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uh i think you have two it's coming up

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a little bit about what you're doing and

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japanese htv-6 are much more efficient

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i'm curious about that i mean

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mission and really maybe only once a

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that that's going to happen while we're

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we've had a chance to train on these

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tasks in the neutral buoyancy lab in

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houston before so we're familiar with

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the equipment and the hardware and the

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pinnacle things in your mission when you

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things that i've gotten to do already

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operational highlights now we're all

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incredible experiments like you

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saw your thanksgiving meal uh now the

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holiday is coming up how do you

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he's going to provide a great

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european meal for us

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russian cuisine on that day with them so

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we're going to get to celebrate it on

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december 25th and january 7th so it'll

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cool i only got about a minute um so

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we'll rush through these ones where are

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you exactly in the space station what's

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well behind me back by the uh the

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ramblin wreck flag is kind of the

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command post of the u.s side of the

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and then this kind of is a center point

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for all the other modules that kind of

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either go behind me or in front of me

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all right and then my final one is are

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you worried that perhaps your football

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teams play better when you're not on

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earth considering we beat georgia and

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army finally beat navy for the first

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yeah i was really happy to see that i

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told coach johnson a few years ago when

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i was talking at a thing that i was

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when i was in space for techbeat in

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georgia so now i'm 2-0 so i told him he

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has to tell nasa to send me to space

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thank you so much shane we're at the end

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of our time

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a safe mission safe continuing mission a

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safe trip home and a merry christmas to

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you the crew and also your family back

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thanks jason merry christmas everybody

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go jackets

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stayson this is houston acr that

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thank you to all participants and guests

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from the georgia institute of technology

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station please stand by while we