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station this is houston are you ready

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we're ready for the event

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fox news edge this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is allison conklin with fox

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hey allison we have you loud and clear

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awesome hi guys how are you

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oh we're doing great thanks it's a great

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we had a great week and looking forward

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do you actually have weekends like do

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yeah we get a little time on the

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weekends to have free time usually on

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saturday mornings we'll do kind of house

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cleaning up here and then after that

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saturday afternoon is free and sunday is

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generally free as well

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so what's a a typical day like for you

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do you wake up do you do exercises do

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you have meals at certain times of the

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actually we all kind of have different

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schedules because we have only limited

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number of exercise hardware and we spend

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each of us about two and a half hours

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exercising a day

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and so the schedulers have this big

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challenge of juggling all the things

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that we have to get done in addition to

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exercise with the availability of the

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hardware and making sure that the space

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is free and available

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for us to work but a typical day can

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involve

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maybe a big scientific day where we're

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doing lots of different scientific

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experiments it might be a repair day

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where we're fixing hardware

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in general

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we don't typically work together on

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things because we're each individually

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working on different experiments or

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different projects

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so the day

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the fun part of the day is actually when

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we get together for the meals and get

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the chance to spend a little time

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together and talk about the funny thing

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that happened to us

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that's awesome so how many people are up

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so we have a crew of six which is the

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normal crew compliment up here there's

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two groups of three

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because of the russian vehicles that we

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fly up and down on only hold three

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people so

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i came up with two russians and peggy

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came up with a russian and a french

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do you guys talk about politics up there

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luckily no yeah luckily no that's a

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i wish i was up there with you then

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so um as i understand it um peggy you're

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going to be breaking a record soon talk

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a little bit about that and just your

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well i think the important thing about

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breaking records uh is not the fact that

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i i'm the one that's breaking the record

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it's the fact that we are still breaking

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records every day in space flight we're

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breaking a record of a human presence in

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space we're over 17 years now

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each day we're breaking records and as

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long as we continue to break records

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uh i think that's really important so

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it's great to break a record but it's

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it's even better

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that the record is broken again that we

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are continuing to progress and push the

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and shane as i understand it the you're

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wrapping up your time out there how long

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is a typical trip what was yours is

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about five months as i understand it and

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so in general we're up here about six

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months and mine will be i think five

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months and three weeks the way it ends

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up and uh

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so but in general we're up here for six

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months at a time i've been up here i

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think four months tomorrow and peggy

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will have been up here about three

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months tomorrow

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so there's

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kind of a lot of traffic going back and

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forth i mean three months you she came

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up three months ago i mean how do you

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get back in force

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i know

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nasa's program is um

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yes so right now we're currently using

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the russian

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spacecraft to launch

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to the space station and return us

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safely home

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however all of our cargo vehicles are

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are we have two different cargo

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suppliers that are commercial in the

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united states spacex

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and orbital atk

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and then we also have a japanese

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carriers that bring up cargo and

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european carriers that brought up cargo

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and truck and russian progress vehicles

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that bring up cargo

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and in

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another year and a half or so we're

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hoping that we're going to have

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commercial crew capability provided by

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uh commercial uh

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vendors in the united states so that

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we'll be able to bring up crew

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on board us vehicles as well so that'll

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actually be a step up

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and one of the evas we're planning later

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hopefully this month or next

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uh will be

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to move the one of the pressurized

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mating adapters it's a docking port that

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will be used for those uh commercial

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partners in the future so we're we're

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definitely looking forward to the the

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time when uh crew members will be

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and i don't know if you guys follow

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what's happening here or what's

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happening in your industry but tomorrow

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spacex is going to be launching a rocket

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um in into space and they're talking

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about what's going to happen with that

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and i don't know if you you know

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follow what spacex is doing in elon musk

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and a lot of hype down here about

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the mission to mars and what year that's

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going to happen and things like that i

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mean this is this kind of thing that

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we're it's huge right now we're talking

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well that's encouraging that's great

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news to hear of course we are following

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spacex very closely because that vehicle

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is launching tomorrow and it shows up

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here on monday and uh tomorrow pesky the

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french astronaut is going to use the

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canadian robotic arm and he's going to

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grab it and then attach it to the space

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station so it's going to have a lot of

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experiments for us a lot of clothing and

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food and other supplies as well so we're

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really looking forward to getting spacex

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awesome well keep up the good work up

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there i have never done an interview

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with people on the international space

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station and it's really quite an honor

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to be able to talk to you it's it's very

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cool and uh we miss you guys down here

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thanks a lot allison

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thank you guys thank you so much for

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making this happen we really appreciate

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we really enjoyed it have a great

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weekend

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station this is houston acr

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thank you to all participants with fox

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