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station this is houston are you ready

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we are ready for the event

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betsy ross elementary school this is

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mission control houston please call

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station this is sarah cordette betsy

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ross elementary school teacher here with

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we hear you loud and clear how you guys

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betsy ross do you guys hear us from the

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hello thank you so much for taking our

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call we're so excited and so grateful to

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have

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this amazing opportunity to speak with

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you both while on board the space

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station we've been following you closely

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weeks and we're so excited to be able to

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speak with you there's an auditorium

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full of students here who are really

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excited to ask you questions so we're

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in space like darkness and no oxygen

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what is the scariest thing about space

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in space and uh the way we work around

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that i think uh you know like you said

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vacuum there could be a fire or a

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depressurization of the modules

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and we practice and

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what we are going to do in the in

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emergency we know our roles and our

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responsibilities and i think with that

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practice that helps us overcome those

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online i've learned how astronauts use a

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spacesuit to survive during a spacewalk

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if you were to re-engineer the space

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very good question

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that's a very hard problem we've had

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engineers working on new spacesuits for

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hopefully they're getting close to a

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solution i think i would just make it

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less bulky it's really big and bulky

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right now if there's any way that we

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could trim that down and make a little

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more sleek and that way we can have more

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i think it would be better but that's a

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soon solve be the first two-time female

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commander of the space station what do

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you think needs to happen to get more

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well you know what i think we need more

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young ladies like yourself studying in

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science math and engineering and really

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actually pursuing goals there knowing

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that women can be in space

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and be astronauts and be engineers and

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tech and technicians that can really

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solve pr interesting technical problems

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for nasa so

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you you need to study and get out there

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i know astronauts get some medical

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training but i am curious what happens

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good question we're handled we're

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equipped to handle a lot of the

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situations that may come about we all

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get trained and medical training

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we're crew medical officers is what they

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call us so we go through that training

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but if there's something we can't handle

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we always have mission control to talk

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to and there's an actual doctor or we

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call them flight surgeons that will be

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there talking us through a procedure if

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i read that scientists discover planets

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that may be able to have life how did

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they look around other stars outside our

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solar system was the iss involved or

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well that is a very good question for

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someone your age i'm very impressed um

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but the kepler space telescope is one

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space telescope that looks in particular

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for uh planets other planets

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and life but what the

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and the hubble space telescope can also

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um it's interesting that you know we we

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think about light and

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looking and seeing something through a

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telescope that only we can see but there

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are other things that are out there that

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the scientists can look at which is like

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other things that can tell them and give

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them clues about where planets might be

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i read on the website that there are

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about 150 foods on board the iss how do

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you get all your nutrients from such few

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important part of everybody's world i

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guess and same with us peggy's showing

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you a few of our choices here with a

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drink bag a pouch of food as well as a

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we do have 150 or so i think and that is

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actually very good it does give us a lot

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of variety so that we don't get bored

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with the same food over and over and

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crewmates as well as french astronauts

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russian food as well as french food

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sometimes so it keeps the the variety

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nice and it doesn't let us get bored

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important for us to eat enough and get

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the nutritional value that you mentioned

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so that our bones and our muscles don't

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i learned the iss is a place where

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astronauts from many different countries

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go how do all how do you all get along

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international space station and we have

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different countries here at one time or

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another right now we have three russians

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russian-built vehicle and all the

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procedures and the displays are in

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you are the commander of the iss however

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six months up here um

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together as teams before we come up here

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to make sure we don't have any issues

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with our you know personality issues or

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things like that we have to work

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expedition so we don't have any room for

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people doing things kind of on their own

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or against the rules or against the law

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mission to have great crewmates and i

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have not had to worry about putting

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the country shares the research data and

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working together on different types of

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research we have for instance the alpha

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magnetic spectrometer which has i think

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on order of 15 countries from all over

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experiment called fluid shifts it's a

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investigators so yes we share all our

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data and research and we encourage all

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the scientists to publish so that

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i know that astronauts have a super busy

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schedule that's scheduled on five

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how do you manage all the stuff you do

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the night before typically so we have an

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sometimes overnight the schedule will

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change but usually it's not drastically

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an organize in our mind sometimes we'll

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even get the equipment out ahead of time

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to just make us more efficient a lot of

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times during the day we're not working

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creates a great bond between our crew

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scheduled down you know like you said

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about five minutes every five minutes uh

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end of the day because we work very well

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together and uh and if all the equipment

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behaves then we'll usually be done a

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what is the best thing you have done in

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contribution is being able to help all

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the different scientists uh on earth

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there are over 270 investigations going

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to assist in as many of those as

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possible is really important to me but

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the hands-on research particularly

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involving biomedical or

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biochemical sciences those to me are the

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background and my training are in but i

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i'm wondering how does it feel when you

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today because me and my crew head back

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to earth on monday next week so uh your

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interesting feeling i think we feel a

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little dizzy in general just because

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and getting your bones and muscles back

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i am aware that there are many things

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floating in space but how does the iss

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detect as something is approaching the

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don't detect it but we have experts on

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the ground that are tracking all the big

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things that might be floating around out

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routinely but if we if there's a risk

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through research i found that the iss

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has conducted studies and research about

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germs however i am curious about what

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happens if an astronaut becomes sick in

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quarantine for about two weeks and

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public so that we don't bring all these

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germs potentially up into space in this

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spread very quickly throughout the rest

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we'll knock on wood we've been very

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lucky in the six months or so i've been

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here and everybody's been feeling great

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we do take precautions like you were

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asking about on keeping our hands clean

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and keeping our utensils clean um and

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our bodies clean in general so that we

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don't spread you know unnecessary germs

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why do astronauts have to take turns

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living on space station why can't

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astronauts live on board the space

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well we could live on board the space

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station longer but most of us actually

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want to get home and see our families

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eventually so

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we do we do want to just get home and

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and we want to share the experience with

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as many people as possible so it's only

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fair that we should take turns and

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return home

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but part of the reason that we're liv

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we're living up here for six month

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periods of time or a little more is to

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try and understand what how our bodies

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react to being in space this long

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because when we go to mars maybe you

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guys in the future when you're traveling

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to mars the research that we're doing on

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our bodies now will help us determine

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how to make you safer on your trip to

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are you working on anything top secret

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that's a good question a lot of people

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think that but no everything all these

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investigations and experiments we're

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working on that peggy was talking about

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earlier

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the scientists get all the data we're

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not keeping anything from them or from

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anybody else

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there was a day you know where there

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were some somewhat secret missions back

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in the early days of the space program

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but not anymore we like to share our

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data so that everybody on earth can

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how do astronauts play in space what do

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actually being able to take advantage of

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just being in zero gravity is a lot of

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fun and so

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sometimes we do different

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tricks in space uh actually even with

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food or just hanging out we will go in

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all different directions because it's

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just easy to do so just being here is

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actually a lot of fun uh experience oh

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and look we got another crew member

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coming through

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watch out so everybody has fun up here

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just being in zero gravity

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we'd love to look out the window and

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take pictures of the beautiful earth

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that's a lot of entertainment for us

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because it's just so unique it's such a

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novel part of what we're doing up here

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so that's probably one of the

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based on research i know that long

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duration space missions are causing some

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eye problems for the astronauts like the

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back of their ice bladden what do

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astronauts support the iss do when this

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happens and how do you handle other base

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travel side effects when you return to

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yeah there have been some cases you're

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right um thank goodness it's the

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minority of astronauts and nobody in our

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crew has had these issues yet

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but there you know we do we do do

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medical exams probably

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every month or every month and a half on

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our eyes to make sure that nothing's

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happening crazy um we do some uh

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ultrasound images of our eyes just like

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a doctor would do on the ground so we

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get to do that on each other and help

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each other out and all that data gets

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into the ground for our doctors to

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analyze to make sure everything in our

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eyes look great

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we and potentially maybe we'll have some

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issues when we get back on the ground on

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earth as well

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and we have plenty of doctors that make

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sure they're there to help us get

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through whatever issues they are the

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good part about the eye issues you've

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heard about is they do resolve once the

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crew member gets back on the ground

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after several months so that's a good

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on my google expedition i noticed that

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there are many hidden pieces and buttons

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that seems confusing what is the most

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challenging thing about building a space

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i think probably the most challenging

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is probably just being away from family

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and friends for a long period of time

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luckily we can talk to them on an

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internet protocol phone so

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we're able to be up here for several

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months without feeling too isolated from

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them but i think that's probably the

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wow

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what a great experience this has been we

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want to thank shane kimbrough and peggy

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whitson for taking the time to talk with

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ross elementary we also want to

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congratulate shane and peggy on their

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recent extravehicular activity last

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thursday march 30th

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in addition we would like to acknowledge

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all of the work of expedition 50 and

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commander shane kimbrough who will come

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back to earth on april 10th finally

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congratulations to peggy whitson on soon

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becoming the first female two-time

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commander of the international space

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station and for

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soon breaking the record for the most

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time in space on april 24th a big thank

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you to all of us here at betsy ross

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elementary school in anaheim elementary

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you to all participants and guests

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from betsy ross elementary school