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you've seen

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kirk shireman iss program manager here

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at the baikonur cosmodrome kirk

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another soyuz ready to go another trio

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of in this case very very experienced

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how will that experience match the pace

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of work that will greet them and their

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well this will be a great time for the

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usos for uh for nasa and and uh and the

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usos partners esa csa jaxa because we'll

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have four crew members

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working on the u.s segment so there's a

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tremendous amount of work to be done a

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lot of research going on right now we

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have a spacex flight coming up here in

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less than a month so a tremendous amount

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of work coming forward and we'll be glad

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to have four u.s crew members for the

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first time ever on board the

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and in terms of crew complement what is

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the importance overall

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of restoring the station to a full

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yeah well the station was built for six

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our tradition for a number of years has

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been to have six people on board so

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we're really happy to be up to the

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normal compliment and we're looking

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forward to commercial crew here in the

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not-too-distant future where we'll step

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big things in store for us here over the

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next couple of years i'm always struck

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by the fact that when a multi-national

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crew launches it just shows the whole

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about how important in terms of the

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legacy of the space station is that

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are participating in the iss uh this

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criminal from italy a criminal from

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russia and so that crew is a microcosm

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of that but not only from all the

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partners have we had crew members but

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the researchers have touched over 90

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countries around the world so it really

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is a global endeavor and you kind of see

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that in the faces of the people here

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can't let you get away without a

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question about peggy whitson who's in

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the home stretch of her longer than

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accomplishments and what she has brought

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to the station during almost 10 months

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exceptional individual so peggy peggy

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for her recreation she does more

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research so she really has set the bar

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crew members still a tremendous amount

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segment of the space station so great uh

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great accomplishment she's had up there

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one more european astronaut that's going

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to fly to space to bring further science

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to our european countries and

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france coming back we have now paolo

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really having this european exploration

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program so it's really great to be here

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long duration mission i mean it it's a

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duration space flights of course we are

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getting more and more expertise uh our

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astronauts of course but not only our

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astronauts also the center the people

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flight expertise in europe and this is

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prepare the future where we're going to

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the moon back and then of course

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launch pad so we are now 60 years

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further we of course are not in

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competition anymore we do everything in

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international cooperation with our

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jaxa from canada and this is another

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great aspect of human space flight it

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are a lot of conflicts in the world

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today we still manage to work together

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and to fly our astronauts and cosmonauts

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tomorrow we will see a russian an

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american and an italian astronaut fly

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together to space what can be more

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beautiful in a time like this

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bill gerstenmaier nasa's associate

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administrator for human exploration bill

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program with the launching of sputniks

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almost 60 years ago your thoughts on how

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far the planet the human race has come

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in six decades

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patch on the side of the rocket

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celebrating the 60th anniversary of

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the sputnik launch from this very launch

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pad and it's absolutely amazing to think

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easy little satellite was launched from

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this pad 60 years ago and here we're

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getting ready to go launch three crew to

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the most complex engineering marvel ever

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built in space the international space

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station i mean what a tremendous

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transition from that period of time when

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sputnik we we were you know it was a

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very different time politically and now

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station from that same launch pad that

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the spirit of the people here today i'm

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the work that lies ahead yeah i think

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research going on board station and to

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to get the additional hands and eyes and

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brains to actually go do these

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experiments is going to be just a

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tremendous benefit to us so i'm really

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exciting and it's good to see station

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hardware is phenomenal the research

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equipment to see that teaming of that

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the fact that she began her life as a

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get a chance to become an astronaut and

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inspiration to all of us she really

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challenges the ground team she gets work

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done much faster she keeps the on orbit

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team marching to a good

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pace and a good cadence just a

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tremendous individual so to see that

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same dedication she she exhibited when

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astronaut is just phenomenal so she's

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just had an amazing career you know i

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special in their own way but but peggy

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so sasha arjaba you're the wife of

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fellow nespoli i thought it feel to be

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along training and we really enjoyed it

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three old max and

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eddie is also here

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and