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station this is houston are you ready

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i'm ready for the event

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cbs radio news this is mission control

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houston please call the station for a

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voice check station station this is bill

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i have you loud and clear bill how are

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hey pretty good peggy so uh so how's it

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going up there you guys have a bit more

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room right now while you wait for some

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fresh crew members to arrive i'm

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wondering if you're enjoying a bit more

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privacy or

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actually we've been pretty busy we have

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a lot of activities coming up

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preparing for a

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future arrival of oa7 and

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of course the soyuz crew as well as

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hopefully conducting another spacewalk

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in the near future so we've got a lot of

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things going on preparations underway

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well you know speaking of spacewalks

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peggy i've never heard an astronaut yet

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say they gave much thought to setting

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new space records but you know it seems

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like you're setting a new record every

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week or so you're now fifth on the list

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of the most experienced spacewalkers

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you're number one on that list for

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female spacewalkers and you'll move up

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to number three all time if you get to

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do one more so the question is how in

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the world did a farm girl from iowa get

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i don't really know how i got this lucky

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it's been amazing to have the

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opportunities that i've had uh and

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it's just amazing to me what some

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dedication uh and a lot of hard work uh

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well you know i've never worked on a

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farm but i know it's not easy i mean is

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that where you got this work ethic you

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know and just out of curiosity did you

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my work ethic is i think from my farm

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they had to come up with the solutions

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work ethic that maybe stubbornness

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single-mindedness

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for me so i'm

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definitely thankful for my roots and

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looking up in the night skies in iowa

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do think you dream a lot

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but continuing our theme here um you

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now you're currently 29th in the world

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you'll jump up to number 14 passing jeff

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jeff to become america's most

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experienced astronaut i mean do you view

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yourself as a role model of any kind for

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young women or is that something

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it's it's not something i think about a

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the first female astronauts selected

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were definitely an inspiration to me

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and so i maybe i will be a role model

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for sure um you know right now i guess

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you're expected to come home separate

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move up to continuing my records thing

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here at the seventh in the world in

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cumulative time in space that's 132 days

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more than jeff williams in 146 days more

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than scott kelly so i'm guessing your

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continue to progress we we want people

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to continue learning new things about

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what what space does to the human body

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and hopefully have learned a lot i mean

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space station now about exercise and how

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our bones and muscles recover

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science that is definitely going to be a

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stepping stone plus all the technology

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development you know for their life

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support systems our water reclamation

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notices when one male or another moves

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up or down the list does it bother you

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that people like me

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landing day that's that's a recent

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decision to extend your mission by three

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months of course you were originally

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tough psychologically to think you're

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you're adding 90 days i mean was that an

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adjustment for you

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decided we were going to have a

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road to successful happiness we were

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going to be happy if i came home in june

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because there's so many things that

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change in what we do up here that you

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flexible plans for happiness worked out

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for the september option so we'll we're

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only one american what does it mean to

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science operations to have you and jack

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opposed to just one person in other

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routine supplies up here so i think it's

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the safe station in a safer uh situation

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weightlessness what is it for you with

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the daily satisfaction the the work up

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meeting even though i might be

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station this is houston acr that

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the event please stand by for a voice

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rachel crane with cnn

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how do you hear me

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i have you loud and clear how do you

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rachel this is peggy how do you hear me

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we hear you

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i have you loud and clear on board the

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now you've been to space several times

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now so what's the first thing that you

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do when you get back to earth you have a

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shower is nice up here we have to take

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wiped bath

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with wipes and towels and stuff and so

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showers are nice and food is nice i like

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to be able to cook for myself so food is

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a nice thing to have when you get back

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so you've broken just about every record

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for a female astronaut for a u.s female

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astronaut out there so was that your

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goal or is that just sort of an added

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it was really just an added bonus i've

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been lucky enough privileged enough to

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be in uh some very

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unique times and

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was able to do some very special things

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uh conducting spacewalks being the first

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commander all of that was

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somewhat based on timing and

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opportunities

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it's it's a

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just a real honor for me to be able to

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represent nasa in these areas

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and with each new record that you break

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well i guess i don't think about the

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records themselves too much but

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it definitely uh when i do think about

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them i think about all the people that

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make make it possible there's an

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incredible number of people

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on april 24th you will have broken

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another incredible record you will have

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spent more days uh in cumulative days in

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space than any other us astronaut

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i i'm not sure i'm sure there's somebody

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out there keeping track but i'm not sure

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so your stay on the international space

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station was just extended by three

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months but how long in space is too long

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i mean do you think that our bodies and

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brains could actually handle a mission

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to mars now having sent so long on the

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actually that's exactly why we're

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spending this time up here is to find

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out what the limitations are where do we

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need to compensate for things whether

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it's from a psychological perspective or

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from a physio physiological perspective

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those are some of the questions that are

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really key for us that we're trying to

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learn here on board the space station so

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that when we get ready to go to mars we

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will know that we are capable and ready

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and and it'll just be part of the

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so the late great john glenn last flew

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to face when he was 77 years old do you

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have any indication of if you'll be

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still flying to space when you're 77

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if i'm not dead

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so then this is not your last mission to

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i have no idea you know there are lots

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of young people out there who need to

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have flight opportunities too and so

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uh we don't have too many opportunities

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these days

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and i may have to step back for a while

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so that's just the way it is but but i'm

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loving working for nasa and uh i worked

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for nasa for 10 years before i was lucky

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enough to be selected as an astronaut

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i've always said i've never had a real

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job because i've done what i wanted

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and that was work at nasa

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so peggy your last spacewalk you worked

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on a future docking port for commercial

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space missions would you go to space on

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absolutely i think our commercial

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providers are working very hard striving

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to get up here hopefully within the next

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year or so

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with their first test flights it's going

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to be an important time period for them

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i know they're working very hard on

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getting their vehicles and

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launchers

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human rated so we're looking forward to

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welcoming onboard the space station

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um new vehicles and i think that's

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that's going to be really special for us

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i think it's going to be the next step

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in evolution of commercializing space

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and expanding our footprint uh into the

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peggy what advice would you give to

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young girls out there who want to follow

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in your footsteps and hope to go to

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well i think picking any field in math

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science or engineering and and picking

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one that you love because you really

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need to excel at it

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also working on people skills it's

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important in an environment like this to

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be able to work and collapse in in a

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collaborative way not only with the crew

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that we have on board but the crew that

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we have on on the ground uh that the

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whole team is important so those

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interpersonal skills are just as

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important as the technical skills

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and for the crew on board i think maybe

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even more important

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so work on all those things but that my

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the biggest piece of advice i would say

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is don't underestimate yourself

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push yourself challenge yourself to do

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you have stacked up one of the most

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impressive resumes at nasa

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with all that you've done what memory

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well other than actual space flight

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being in space i think probably the most

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challenging and interesting position

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i've had was being chief of the

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astronaut office

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it was

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very much a work in collaborating with

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other organizations at nasa

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i really think it helped me develop a

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lot as a leader so

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i think that was probably

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other than space flight my my my most

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satisfying time

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and is there any advice that you would

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like to impart on the people who have

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already bought tickets to space

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enjoy it it's going to be a blast you're

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going to love every second of it

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just this whole environment being able

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to be in zero gravity and move around

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at will

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is just amazing it is it's very freeing

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it gives you a whole another perspective

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on our planet below

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so i i just think everyone will enjoy it

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thank you so much peggy really

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thank you rachel

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