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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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clay center for the arts and sciences

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this is mission control houston please

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call station for a voice check

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station this is brian hughes at wow k 13

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storm tracker meteorologist here with

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senator joe manchin and students how do

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we have you loud and clear good good to

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have you guys on board the station

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senator manchin

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uh commander shane kimbrough and dr

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peggy whiston uh hello from the mountain

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the great mountain state of west

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virginia i'm senator joe manchin i have

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the true honor and pleasure of

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representing this wonderful state and

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we're here at the beautiful clay center

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with approximately 500 students from

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around our state with thousands watching

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in on skype right now and we're so

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excited about this we are proud to be

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americans we're proud to be west

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virginians but we're more proud of you

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two right now for being part of this and

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allowing us to be part of that with you

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i have some really outstanding students

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who have some great questions and we're

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and our first question comes from alexis

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jenkins of south charleston high school

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hi my question is for peggy

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what did you wish to gain personally and

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well scientifically this uh increment we

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have over 200 investigations that we're

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working on almost actually 300

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and so there's lots of different

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scientific objectives and my goals from

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my perspective is to get as much of that

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i always think of us as being the hands

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of all the scientists on the ground who

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proposed and developed all these

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investigations to be up here

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it's just a great opportunity to

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i have never had another job or another

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part of my job that has made me

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so personally satisfied and makes me

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feel like i'm contributing directly to

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the space flight and exploration

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polka middle school anthony

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hello this question is for shane

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how is it living together

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well very good question we are in kind

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of small quarters but it's probably

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bigger than you think it's kind of like

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the volume of a big house on earth uh so

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we just can't go outside every day so

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we're all kind of inside all the time

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so we have to make sure we're not

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getting on each other's nerves

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we have to you know take each other's

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considerations into account no matter

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what we're doing and it's just actually

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great people skills that we've learned

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thank you very much next up our question

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comes from kyle casto of hurricane high

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first off i just want to say you guys

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are both awesome and i'm so envious of

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my question is for peggy and it's what

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precautions are in place to prevent the

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introduction of pathogens on the iss and

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do iss astronauts ever face illnesses

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not introduce pathogens on board

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two weeks or so before we launch uh

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from whatever space pad whether it's in

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russia or kazakhstan we start a

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quarantine period where we limit access

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pathogen and then carrying it up here to

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that we worry about because of the bone

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demineralization process is actually

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mission early if somebody formed a

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kidney stone because it's extremely

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painful and if the crew member weren't

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emergency and return early

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awesome answer thank you guys wow who

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knew next up

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kyra moore campbell midland high school

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what was the biggest hardship you had to

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face on your journey to becoming an

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wow there's a lot of i don't know

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hardship's the right word or obstacles

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or challenges that get put in front of

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everybody as you guys see as you go out

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they're behind me as as opportunities

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solving skills that i had for my

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education as well as the being in the

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army and kind of use those techniques um

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hurdle or that obstacle and then

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be will chaddon from george w high

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school hi this question is for peggy

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we know that you've conducted research

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on how lighting on board the iss affects

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are you able to feel a physical effect

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when the lighting changes and how can

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crew quarters and so the it has uh

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different frequencies with different

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yellow wavelengths in the evening and it

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change up here we can we can modify and

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exploration missions having that

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up is going to be laura mangold of

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nicholas county high school hi

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um this is for shane and

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what is communicating with your family

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conference with them as well so that's

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always great to be able to see them and

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catch up with them we have email of

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to have all those resources available to

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thank you very much next up madeline

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hi this question is for peggy

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young woman wanting to pursue a career

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advice i can give you is pick a field

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that really interests you then

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that gives you some drive and some

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passion and pursue it with all your

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heart and you will be successful that

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what is the most difficult daily task

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difficult thing we do every day is just

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world and all those activities require

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getting tools and getting pieces of

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our emergency egress vehicle in case

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the fire we're going to remove power to

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was there he also has two questions

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because uh preston high school could not

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for shane has your time on the iss

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be too old to be doing this but it's

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your generation really that's going to

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these really long missions so i hope you

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next up is maya rowe of george

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washington high school hi this question

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is for peggy you have a place in history

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as the first female commander of the iss

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what challenges have you faced as a

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woman in a nasa career and do you

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believe you have contributed to this

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trend of more women going into stem

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it's kind of hard to believe that me

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personally would have contributed to

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more women going into the stem fields i

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think it's just the fact that there are

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more and more women out there every day

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doing these types of jobs and the more

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young people that see that they believe

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they can also do those jobs i mean the

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same was true for me

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uh you know i became inspired to become

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an astronaut when i saw

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after the first female astronauts were

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selected so that was when i graduated

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from high school and so it made a big

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impact on me made me feel like it was

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possible and i think the important

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advice that i give to young people is

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pursue your dreams pursue your goals and

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you know make an extra effort to make it

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happen nothing's going to be handed to

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you on a silver platter unfortunately so

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make it happen and make do the extra

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work to do that

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thank you thank you very much next up is

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jada smith of polka middle school

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hi my question's for shane

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what is one thing on earth that you miss

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well for me it's my family i think it is

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for most of us there's all there's

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there's types of foods and things that

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you also miss but in general it's my

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family and friends and just hanging out

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thank you thank you next up kendall

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bostick will ask two questions first one

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was from preston high school

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hi my first question is for peggy are

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you required to undergo physical slash

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mental rehabilitation once you return to

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we actually have 45 days of physical

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rehabilitation when we get home it's uh

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to help us gain back those muscles that

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we don't use as much up here everything

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that we do here is so easy our motions

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it just doesn't take much to push off

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and move away from a wall and so uh

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we have to get

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although we maintain our strength by

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doing our exercise on the up here we

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exercise almost two hours a day there

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are lots of muscles that we're not using

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exactly the same way that we do on the

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ground and so it takes about 45 days to

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get all that those uh sensors back and

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then in terms of mental rehabilitation i

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don't know if there's any of that but my

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husband might want me to put me in

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oh thank you

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my second question is for shane

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what aspect of your work on the iss is

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the most exciting to you for example

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you know we've had such a wide variety

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of activities up here i really enjoy all

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of it uh we do a lot of science like you

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mentioned we've also had a lot of

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robotic arm operations where we've had

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uh cargo vehicles arriving that we

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actually reach out and grab it with the

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robotic arm that's been a lot of fun

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but probably the most fun and most

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exciting is doing space walks and we've

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gotten to do a few space walks already

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and we're getting ready to do another

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one next friday

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followed by two more after that before i

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head back to earth so those are probably

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my most exciting things on board

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thank you very much peggy you're gonna

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have to show shane up and do a flip

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probably while answering this next

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question so

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okay uh we have noah wilbur of south

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charleston high school hi my question is

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for peggy with all the space debris how

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do the nasa probes travel through space

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that's a really great question our nasa

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actually tracks a lot of the debris but

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it has to be a certain size before they

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can track it and i think probably the

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only reason we don't hit things is

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because space is so expansive and so

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large that the chances are you're just

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not going to hit something but we do

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track large things like rocket old

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rocket bodies and old satellites that

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are up here and occasionally we have to

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maneuver the station and do a reboost or

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a d boost to change our altitude so that

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we will miss a target

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thank you thank you we have about four

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minutes left so we're going to try and

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get this knocked out here real quick

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hannah runions of polka middle school

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hi my question is for shane how long

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does it take for the body to completely

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completely recoup from the

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weightlessness atmosphere when you come

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well everybody's a little bit different

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i've only been on a short duration

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mission before so when i return to earth

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here in less than a month

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it's going to be a new experience for me

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after being gone for about six months so

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i hope it's only a few days but

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sometimes it's a week and then to get

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fully rehabilitated like peggy mentioned

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earlier sometimes a month to 45 days for

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your entire body to get readjusted

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thank you

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next up is alex jurdorf of george

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washington high school four questions

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live here we go

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hi guys my question is for peggy

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so without the natural barrier of

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earth's atmosphere what precautions must

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the station and crew members take to be

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protected from radiation and how will

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this radiation affect a multi-year

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that's a fantastic question and the

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radiation here

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where we are at 250 miles above the

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earth is still lower than it is when if

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we

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uh go on a long duration mission beyond

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earth's magnetosphere so it's the

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magnetic field that surrounds the earth

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that protects us and then it's even more

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protected down on the on the planet

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because of the atmosphere so it's that

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combination of atmosphere and

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magnetosphere that protects us future

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missions are going to have that as one

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of the main challenges is radiation

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thank you guys next up aaron dodd of

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south charleston high school after this

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two questions hi this question is for

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shane regarding the debates concerning

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the government defending the space

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travel program where do you see the

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future of the program going do you think

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that it will eventually face more

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well the future right now is to get to

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get a human being on mars and so that's

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what nasa in general is gearing our

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human space flight program towards so

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we're building vehicles we're doing

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research we're even doing a lot of that

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on board the iss right now in order to

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be able to send a human to some place

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like mars we always do face monetary

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challenges we're a government agency

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like all the other agencies we're all

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fighting for a big pot of money so

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that's going to continue no matter

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what's going on nasa is always going to

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face struggles with trying to get more

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and more money

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thank you thank you next up is going to

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be uh tyler mcvaney of parkersburg high

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school hello it's an honor to speak be

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speaking with you all today this

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question is for peggy

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how do you feel the success of private

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companies contributing to the commercial

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crew program will enhance and contribute

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to the future of space explorations

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and as an astronaut are you excited for

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the possibility of riding these

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actually we have one of those cargo

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vehicles right here on board to uh right

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now and we're planning on uh unberthing

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and and releasing it at the end of the

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week to bring back home scientific

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samples uh that's a spacex vehicle and

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uh next week we're hoping to get a

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cygnus vehicle in

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so we're really excited about these

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cargo vehicles they give the u.s a great

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capability

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again

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and the fact that it's done commercially

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i think expands our potential for future

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exploration so it's absolutely

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imperative and yes i'd be happy to get

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on a new a new vehicle

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thank you and our final question

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frederick mooney of south charleston

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high school

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hello this is for both peggy and shane

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um

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what steps did you take from college and

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beyond to get where you are now and for

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a related question

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what should an aspiring astronaut like

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well for me i went to the united states

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military academy at west point so after

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that

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i went into the army obligation there

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but i did a career in the army actually

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as a apache helicopter pilot but the

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main things throughout that career was

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education to get me to this this point

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where i am education and operational

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experience was the path that i i guess

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used to get to into the astronaut core

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now peggy's a little bit different

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because she came a different route so

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and

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10 years working at nasa before i was

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lucky enough to be selected

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but for me it was education but coming

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from a scientific arena so any field in

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science engineering math

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any operational field like in the

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military

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test pilot school all of those can apply

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to becoming an astronaut and i think the

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advice i would give is uh

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really push yourself go beyond what you

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think you can actually do because you

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thank you

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dr whitston and commander kimbro we want

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to thank you on behalf of everybody in

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the great mountain state all everybody

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here at clay center in charleston west

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virginia all of the students thousands

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of students that are watching today that

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tuned in for you sharing a little bit of

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your day-to-day with us homer hickam as

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you know is a famous author from

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colewood west virginia and homer said he

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said basically the rocket won't fly

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until someone lights the fuse today i

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hope and i think you have lit the fuse

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for thousands of kids in west virginia

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to be up right where you are today god

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bless you thank you for what you do for

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our great country and have a safe

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journey back home thank you

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standing ovation thank you look at there

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there's the flip for everyone

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shane peggy thank you so much from west

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you're welcome

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station this is houston acr

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thank you to all the participants and

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guests from the clay center for the arts