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station this is houston are you ready

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yes i'm ready for the event

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women's day this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is susan spencer from

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susan i have you loud and clear how do

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hello dr whitson greetings from the

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hearst tower in new york city i'm here

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with the staff of women's day and we are

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absolutely thrilled to be spending this

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now i'm thrilled to be talking with you

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fantastic um the first thing we're going

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to do is do a kind of a group activity

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here where we're going to show you how

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to create a dessert from ingredients

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that you have on the internet up on the

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international space station are you

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i am ready i think i have all the

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great the first thing we're going to ask

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and we're all doing this with you

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okay all right great i hope you have

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your scissors cause you know up here

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everything's packaged so you have to you

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know previously cut up the you know cut

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all right the next thing the next thing

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we're going to ask you to do is take

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some peanut butter and spread it on the

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excellent

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all right then we're gonna sandwich it

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do you have a little chocolate sauce dr

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you're gonna squeeze i have some

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we're gonna dip and you're gonna squeeze

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and here comes the chocolate

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and i don't know what time it i don't

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know what time of day it is but in my

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world i eat cookies at 10 30 10 o'clock

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how's that taste

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how's taste

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it's very tasty

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butter fan on earth but i love it up

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well thank you so much for indulging us

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on that one and i hope you'll share that

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um so we're going to start with a

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question that's um kind of flows a

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really is basically just what is your

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favorite dessert and

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are you going to eat it the moment you

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i'm going to answer my favorite dessert

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so our food folks do a great job of

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having a variety of different foods up

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my favorite dessert up here is what i

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call space apple pie

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that sound to you

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that sounds pretty good do you have a

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microwave how do you heat it up just

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convection the heating will warm them up

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more much more important question so um

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life on earth or the people back down on

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around it once every 90 minutes

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what they call the limb of the earth and

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selecting us i think but the station is

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structure on the external surface that

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engineering achievement so it's too big

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anniversary issue and she's going to be

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up on the iss next year so what advice

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dr whitson thank you so much for your

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time we hope you enjoyed the dessert i

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think everybody here did but we really

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appreciate it and when you come back to

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station this is houston acr that

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okay i hear you

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station this is david curley abc this

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week how do you hear me

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david this is peggy whitson i have you

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well it's a pleasure dr whitson to talk

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and exploration mission to mars we may

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have to come up with something smaller

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so i've been testing a new smaller

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miniature exercise device

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plus one of the cell culture studies i

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was looking at i was doing looking at at

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and that may help us understand the

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mechanisms of the change and therefore

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maybe turn it around or reverse it

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so that we don't lose bone mineral

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density as fast as we normally would

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you know we've talked about where we go

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next after the station do we go to mars

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do we go back to the moon what do you

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think we should do next where should we

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am a proponent of us doing further

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exploration i i want to make sure that

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when we do exploration we don't just go

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and plant a flag i want us to actually

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have a base on the moon have a base on

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mars maybe have a another orbital

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station in a garage point that can be a

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base as we travel further out uh from

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our soul you know out into our solar

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system

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so i think

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any explorations good exploration um i

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think we need to plan on expanding

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our presence in our solar system and

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i've seen you inside the station i've

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seen you working outside the station

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during a spacewalk you've had three

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missions this of course

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the long duration one it could be your

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what's been the highlight what is the

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one thing that you have done so far in

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well it's really hard to beat a

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spacewalk uh being in your own little

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spacecraft your personal spacecraft that

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just is covering your body

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and being outside in that environment

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is extremely special

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and it's always going to be a highlight

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and since i've had space walks on all of

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my missions

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that is a part of those missions my

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first two missions other highlights

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really included a lot of the assembly

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process i helped install

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some of that football field link truss

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that's outside that holds our solar

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array panels

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truss area and so those have been

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highlights those are things i remember i

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did internal and external things for

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that i think on this mission the

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highlight has really been a lot of the

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science that we're doing i think the

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science has escalated and we are really

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improving the quality and level of

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science that's getting done up here and

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so

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is there have you

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have you had a down day we haven't

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talked for four months has there been a

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day where you really missed earth and

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you know i think psychologically it's

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best not to

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think about going home for the most part

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during the mission

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and even when i wasn't sure

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whether i would be leaving in june uh or

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or in september

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uh before that time i really hadn't

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envisioned myself going home and i think

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that helped with that transition because

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there really wasn't any transition i

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hadn't really

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put my eggs in that going home basket

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now that i'm close to the end of the

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mission theoretically within a couple of

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weeks of the end of the mission

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i do think you know people are sending

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me notes what do you you know what do

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you want to do about this thing when

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after two days after landing or this

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thing four days after landing and

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it makes you think about being at home

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and i think i've missed home more in the

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last week or so just because i'm being

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we're probably going to air sunday

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morning the eclipse

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the total solar eclipse for much of

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america is going to happen on monday you

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don't get to see the whole thing you get

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a lot of sunsets and sun rises but what

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will you see what are you looking for

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because we're going around the planet

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once every 90 minutes we'll pass over

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and have it in our view on three of

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those orbits but it's not gonna be real

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you know it's not like we're flying

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through between uh

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uh it'll probably be about 1500 1700

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miles away so it's gonna be near or the

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uh the horizon view for us

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we are planning on having cameras set up

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and video cameras set up and i know

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there's uh nasa sending out their wb57s

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and they're going to try and track it so

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i think it's it's you know really

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exciting that it you know it's happening

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over the us and that so many people are

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going to get to see it so we we're going

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to try and join in with everyone down

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you told me four months ago you weren't

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very articulate about what it's like to

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be in space the big picture the big

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thoughts you've had four months to think

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man putting me on the spot here

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um i guess my my big thoughts are that

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you know we really need to continue

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exploration i think it uh

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it benefits

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all of us uh on the planet

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not only

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with things that that get fed back to

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our earth and our society but the

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enhancement of the technology that's

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required for us to take the next steps

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is always going to benefit us and i

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think just philosophically

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dr whitson i'm being told to wrap it up

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i had one more but i'll ask you when

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you're back on the ground thank you very

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much for joining us and uh what a

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wonderful mission we look forward to

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okay looking forward to seeing you too

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you women's day and abc this week