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station mrs houston are you ready for

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yes i'm ready for the event

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abc news this is mission control houston

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station this is david curley of abc news

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i have you loud and clear david

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dr whitson it's a pleasure to see you

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i'm feeling great

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you know uh

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we're going to talk about the record you

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will be the longest serving american in

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what does that mean

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and and is it really more of

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feeling with the effects

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the science that you're conducting or is

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well i'm definitely here for conducting

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the science having the opportunity to

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live here

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work here it's a huge privilege

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it's not i'm not here because of the

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record but i i think having the record

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is important for nasa um and because we

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continue to take the next steps in order

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in the future in exploration going to

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reacts how our hardware reacts what

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things work well in space what things

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don't we want to answer all those

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have seen a lot of movies we've heard a

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i absolutely believe we will i and the

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there there's worry about a mars trip

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what it does to your body bone density

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have you felt anything so far in your

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time in space that has changed in your

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more time stretching this time and the

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medical data was taken between him and

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fresh vegetables what have you missed

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africa and the colors it's just such a

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station this is marcia dunn of the

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i have you loud and clear marsha how do

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you hear me just fine greetings peggy uh

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i thought i'd begin with your extended

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maybe uh when the next soyuz crew comes

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up we'll get a little more chocolate

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tomah and i kind of like chocolate

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yeah well you've been lucky to have a

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french astronaut as your crewmate for

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all the various things he's been able to

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provide um with all the food you know i

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understand that cooking is a big deal

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for you on earth tell me what what are

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some of the specialties you've whipped

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up up there

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and what are some of the complications

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of cooking in space besides

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actually the biggest complication is

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everything floats so

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finding a mechanism or a way to make

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something

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while you can can contain it so for

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instance when you're making space

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hamburgers you have to use sauce is

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important because it's your glue to hold

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the pieces together while you're

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building the hamburger

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and so you have to think about how do i

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hold this all together while i'm putting

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it together so you have to think of

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assembly sequence to make sure that

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everything is going to stay

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together and yet and because we don't

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have plates or anything like that

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tortillas are one of my favorite

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structures because

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you can you can eat it in your hand so

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you have to be able to build it inside a

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tortilla

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a lot of times but we've done apple pies

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inside of tortillas and

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with raisins inside and

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chasing down the raisins is kind of

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challenging sometimes but it's fun we do

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it as kind of a group event that way

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everybody can help

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you know make it kind of an assembly

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line thing

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the one of the best things i think was

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we grew some

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cabbage it's more it's chinese cabbage

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but it's a little more like a lettuce

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and we made

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a tuna salad with horseradish sauce and

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put it on the fresh lettuce that was

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great

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and

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you could have a delivery up there from

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any restaurant here on earth what would

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maybe some really good italian with a

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really really nice salad

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well that sounds wonderful um

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you know you're gonna your list of

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records just keeps growing peggy and

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what are your thoughts about soon

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becoming the u.s record holder for most

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it's a real honor privilege

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to be able to have the record and to

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well it seems to me that all that's left

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for you at this point is maybe a full

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one-year mission would you consider that

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oh i i would definitely

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love to go to moon or mars or

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some other destination

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space station's been phenomenal uh but

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i'd like to take some of the next steps

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i'm not sure if i'll last that long but

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i'll give it my best

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well you know um the last spacewalk you

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were on ended up with a cover floating

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off and i'm wondering have you figured

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out how that happened yet and have you

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spotted that cover up there from a

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actually uh the ground team using the

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cameras that the high definition cameras

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that are outside spotted it a couple of

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times in a couple of orbits but it was

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descending rapidly so it was never in

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any uh

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risk of hitting the station thankfully

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because it's very lightweight

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we did determine that

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probably what happened was

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instead of tethering to a tether strap

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we tethered to a ground strap which was

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the same type of fabric and the way we

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had them folded in half

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we had to reach inside to get the tether

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tether points and

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the tether

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the grounding strap look just like

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the tether points and so we tethered to

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something that was only hooked on one

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end and so then the tether came off of

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the the free end

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so it turns out our

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training hardware wasn't the same the

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hardware that was used to develop all

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the procedures

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and

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so

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it was it was never anything that the

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ground team had ever run across as a

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problem uh because it was not mocked up

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exactly the way the flight hardware was

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unfortunately

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yeah i see so it's one of those things

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you learn from me

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so it sounds like it was just a matter

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of tethering it to the wrong tether i

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yeah unfortunately i think that was the

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case

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so

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besides family

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what's what do you miss most so far in

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your journey and

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also as we wrap up the interview what's

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well the my favorite part for sure is

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just being able to live here living in

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an environment that is so foreign to the

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one that you've spent

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that

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your entire life in or almost your

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entire life

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is actually a very special experience

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and i think it's important for us

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as

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future space-faring travelers

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to recognize that we have to be able to

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adapt to these different environments

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in order to do exploration it's like

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doing exploration underwater or

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out here in space it's it's always going

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to take additional challenges and i

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think learning about those and figuring

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out how to overcome them and being able

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to actually truly live

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we work here and we worked here for

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years but i think you know we're living

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here

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it's been almost it's over 17 years now

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so it's just really

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a great experience to

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to be able to live here the thing that

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i guess the that i don't care for the

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most is or i get bored with the easiest

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is uh the lack of variety of the food

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um that to me is the thing that gets to

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me and and some of it has to do with the

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fact that i can't cook it's all in a

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package and a pouch

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peggy godspeed safe travels um and good

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luck bye-bye thank you very much

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thank you very much thank you marcia

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station this is houston acr

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