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station this is houston are you ready

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station

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radio iowa this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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check

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station this is matt kelly with radio

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i have you loud and clear matt it's good

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to hear your voice you too peggy it's

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always a pleasure thanks much for taking

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the time one of the ways that many of us

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celebrate christmas is with a big meal

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with family tell me about your dinner

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plans on sunday with your space station

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well we have a meal plan we

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each of us kind of took responsibility

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for a different meal and and made sure

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we had

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the appropriate types of food available

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we're going to do kind of a combination

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between christmas and new year's tomas

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doing a french new year's dinner for us

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and shane is providing us with a

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meal for

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christmas but the one other special

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thing that we have is we brought up some

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frosting and we're going to try and make

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some christmas cookies basically we have

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little cookies and packages and we're

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going to try and decorate them i think

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we should have a contest but the guys

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don't seem to game on the contest idea

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i heard tell you're going to have some

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yeah we've got some hot cocoa on board

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too

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i saw on the video feed earlier you do

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have a little christmas tree is there

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anything under the tree i guess you

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can't exactly go out to target and pick

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something up but do you exchange

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actually we've got a few surprises

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planned for each other we don't yet know

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what they are but um i i had some stuff

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brought up with me in my

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crew preference bag and

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so i'm looking forward to giving some

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gifts on christmas

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there was a video posted a few days ago

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where you talked about christmas on the

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space station in the context of being

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able to uh it was kind of apollo 8-ish

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you talked about looking out and seeing

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the entire planet and peace talk

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well i think the perspective of our

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planet here is very special and it does

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provide you with the sense that there is

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no boundaries that you know this we're a

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planet we are a people and

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and it kind of reinforces the fact that

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we should be uh together and at peace

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what about new year's eve for you in

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orbit is there uh i guess there's no

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popping of champagne corks or is it more

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no champagne corks i don't know if we'll

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have any new year's resolutions or not

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we might uh

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i'm not sure whether people are going to

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be worried about gaining weight or

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yeah i was just going to ask you about

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resolutions um on your previous missions

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there were only two other astronauts

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with you on the station and now there's

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a crew of six do you ever feel the need

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for more personal space this time around

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actually well since i flew the last time

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we've probably increased the internal

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volume by almost 30 percent so it's

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not

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really feeling very crowded at all up

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here there's still many days where i

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work by myself in a module on a task and

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the guys are in their own modules and

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maybe one of the russians will come down

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and ask hey where's shane and i i'm like

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i don't know you have to go look

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so we don't really feel too crowded here

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actually it's very nice to be able to

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have an opportunity

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at meal times usually lunch

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but always at dinner time to get

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together and talk and share what we were

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doing over the day and

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what was hard what was funny what it's

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it's fun to get together at the end of

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the day

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come along those same lines you're the

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only woman up there with five men even

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on a space station i suspect the guys

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can be guys is there ever any

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uncomfortable times for you i mean do

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you have to be kind of a mom or the

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older sister or are they all behaving

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respectful oh these guys are actually

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really wonderful i am really privileged

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you said that one of your biggest

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challenges on these long messages long

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missions is a lack of variety in your

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space food you've got a frenchman with

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you this time so has that improved the

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well actually

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takuya anishi a japanese guy was up here

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before and he didn't he didn't get to

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eat all his bonus foods so we've been

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tasting on that as well as

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toma pesque's french food so we're

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having a good time with a little bit

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more variety than normal

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i don't know how long the

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leftover japanese food will last but uh

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hopefully we'll be able to share some

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more of toma's french food

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you're still listed as flight engineer

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when do you again become the commander

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and is there a ceremony for that and how

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yeah now that we have six person crew uh

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the two soyuz is actually overlap and so

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the the uh commander on the station is

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the experienced person that was on board

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prior to our arrival

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we will change over when he goes away

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then i will become the commander

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for the second half of the mission

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so it should be in

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uh the end of february or april whenever

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that that event happens and then we will

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have a a handover ceremony per se of

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fantastic peggy i'm told we're out of

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time thank you again very much for the

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thanks and you guys try and stay warm

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there

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we will got a cold front coming in it

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station this is houston sounds like it's

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been very cold there

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and guests from radio iowa station