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station this is houston are you ready

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cnn digital this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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i have you loud and clear how are you

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hi facebook i'm alexandra king and i'm

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currently sitting safely on the ground

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at our studio here at cnn in new york

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city but i am delighted to introduce you

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to astronaut peggy whitson who's with us

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live from the international space

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station thanks so much for joining us

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oh it's a thrill to join you guys um we

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have a lot of fun up here and we want to

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so facebook please do start sending in

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your questions for peggy and in the

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meantime just in case you need an

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official us record holder for most

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cumulative days in space that's a record

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that peggy broke last week today monday

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541st day in space and right now she's

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the commander of the international space

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station something she's now done twice

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again smashing a new record as the first

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ever woman to do so peggy you're such an

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inspiration how does it feel to have

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spent more time in space than any other

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without all the people of the team

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special to represent the the nasa team

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that makes space flight possible

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got lots of questions coming in already

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if you haven't already submitted yours

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type it in the comments comment section

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below the question uh that we have here

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is from 11 year old nehemiah chavez what

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are the education paths i should pursue

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now if i one day hope to become an

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well that's simple any field of math

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and space exploration of any kind and so

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i i would encourage you to pick one of

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those fields that really drives you that

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stimulates you to do better and to learn

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really go after it and pursue it and i

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anything that you can dream about i

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puts a lot of effort into it they can do

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peggy tell me can anything really

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prepare you for life in zero gravity

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hard to simulate we practice on the

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ground what we call the day in the life

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simulations but it's just practicing

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for the fact that all of your tools

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float if you don't pay attention to

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they're going to float away

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they're just so many to choose from

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you know the the discoveries made by

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hubble space telescope are have been

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of the young people out there who are

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please go after pursue it we need more

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station this is houston acr that

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yes we can we're ready to go awesome

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exciting and every day you feel like hey

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we might be making a huge discovery

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you're breaking records what what do you

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not too much

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clearance my husband that's about it my

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i i'm really at home up here i love

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working up here it's such a huge

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privilege and honor to be here um i it's

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hard to get too much of this it's it's

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not

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much of it and so

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and so what would you tell like all the

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little girls down here that that want to

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be you know an astronaut one day

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well i think probably the most important

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thing is for them to find a field in

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math science engineering technology

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something

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that

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technical scientific or technical

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and find a field that really

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you know draws them that makes them

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enthusiastic about work and

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gets them excited about that

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being an expert in a scientific field is

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one of the reasons you get selected as

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an astronaut of course one of the other

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important reasons you get selected as an

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astronaut is because you can get along

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well with others because playing well

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with others is important when you're in

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in a situation where

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uh help might be somewhat distance you

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have to be able to count on your buddies

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to um

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work with you so being a good team

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member is also really good practice for

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being an astronaut

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and i'm going back to like the

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just the daily like living tasks i mean

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obviously everything is so different for

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you guys up there what what's kind of

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the most extreme thing that you've

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you've dealt with that's different than

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on earth

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well

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you know the most extreme thing is go in

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the bathroom that's really hard

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this is pretty cool so we're in the in

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the japanese module

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it's got it's got this garage up there

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so you can actually fly like superman

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are you ready this is pretty awesome

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jack is a lot of fun to have around it's

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great to have the enthusiasm of a new

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guy helping us out uh reminding us even

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more why it's so special to be up here

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every day

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i think you know in terms of challenges

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on board the space station

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you know being separated from family and

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friends is probably the biggest

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challenge but

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it's not one that's that difficult here

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because we do have the capability to

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talk with our family and friends on the

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internet protocol phone or once a week

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we get a skype basically a skype session

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with our our family so

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you know even that is not too bad here

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and you guys said you you're pretty much

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working non-stop how um

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how often do you sleep i mean do you get

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more tired up there i guess that's maybe

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kind of a dumb question but

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don't i don't think so we we uh we sleep

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just like just like on earth it's just

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our job is is kind of like our hobby

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because it's fun so it's it's not

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it doesn't feel like work we're we're

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doing things but it it it really feels

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fun and you can look out the window i'm

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going to try opening them it might not

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see you might not see it well on the

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camera but trust me it's awesome

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and actually one comment on the sleeping

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thing

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that uh you know our sleeping bags quote

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hang on the wall

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and it probably is going to blow it out

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i think it's too bright

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too bright the sun's bouncing off the

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solar rays out there and so it's too

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bright

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but uh we sleep in a sleeping bag mine

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hangs on the wall

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um you know tomah sleeps on the floor

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you know so it's and so he's kind of

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like on his side so everybody

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you know in any orientation you're

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sleeping the same as the the next guy

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even though we sleep kind of all around

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the edges of the module so it is

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different in the sense if you think

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about it that way but the sleep itself

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you know we sleep seven eight hours a

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night and uh love it

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um and mr fisher i know i'm probably

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gonna get wrapped here pretty soon are

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you i mean what would you want to say to

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well uh i think that you you can't

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accomplish anything unless you you

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remember where you're from because

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you are where you're from and and the

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foundation that i got in in in the

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school systems there in colorado uh

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in in lewisville and then centaurus high

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school and then the air force academy uh

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you know made me who i am obviously my

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family is all still there my wife's

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family is still there so uh deep

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connections with with uh colorado and

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the folks of colorado so

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uh

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all i'd like to say is is thank you for

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giving me the opportunity to

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you know follow my dreams and and get up

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here it it's uh

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i wouldn't be here without the support

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of all those folks in that lovely state

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of colorado

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and you know the broncos are awesome

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all right well thank you so much i

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really appreciate your guys's time today

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it's great having you on board with us

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station this is houston acr

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