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you bet we're ready

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jscpao this is mission control houston

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please call station for a voice check

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station this is brandy dean from johnson

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space center's public affairs office and

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i've got the 14 members of the 2017

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astronaut candidate class how do you

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fantastic brandi great to be here with

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you today and and hello to all the 14

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they're saying hi if you can't hear them

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we've got on on the international space

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station we've got peggy whitson jack

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fisher and randy bresnik thank you skye

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so much for taking time out to talk with

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us today

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and thanks to those of you joining us

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on nasa tv or on facebook we're excited

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to have you and to introduce you again

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to the new astronaut candidate class

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we'll be taking questions from reporters

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in social media later in the event so on

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social media you can be submitting your

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um so peggy jack and randy i know you

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haven't met these folks in person yet

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but i've got a room full of new

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co-workers here who are excited to talk

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to you um just to go through their names

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real quick we have starting over here

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caleb barron from richland washington

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zena cardman from williamsburg virginia

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raj achary from cedar falls iowa

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and now up here on the second row woody

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johnny kim from los angeles california

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rob colleen from anchorage alaska

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jasmine mcbelly from baldwin new york

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laurel o'hara from sugarland texas

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candidates who will be joining the class

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uh jenny seidi from calgary alberta

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peggy jack and randy i thought we could

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start out by letting y'all tell us a

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little bit about your time as astronaut

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candidates and then i think they have

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still very exciting uh that i found

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you know coming from a biology

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background some of the classes were

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find that each of you will have

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different expertise and the thing i

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each other's expertise and learn from

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astronaut office is the differences in

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our backgrounds and the ability to share

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and i totally agree with this space

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she knows what the heck she's talking

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about um you you have to use the

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you have to use everybody's gifts so

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skill set and you want to utilize those

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skills everybody's going to learn

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mission and you get to understand how

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nasa's mission is and all the different

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backgrounds but that we all ended up at

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science experience we were able to do

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advice to start out with and i think you

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all have some questions who's

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volunteering to go first you might say

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your name so they know who they're

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talking to hi everyone this is johnnycam

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and one thank you for your time and

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speaking with us and as

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ask can day one training was yesterday

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solar eclipse and i'm wondering we are

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share it with some friends up here but

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view that you know we get on earth um it

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observatories we're able to get and

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workups and so your family has to be you

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communication the technology we have to

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be able to when you're deployed for the

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my amazing wife rebecca for 14 wonderful

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uh my favorite part i think was flying

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t-38s i think that was very challen you

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know interesting fun challenging i

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really enjoyed that

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and i really enjoyed also the eba

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training again challenging uh but it

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makes you feel like hey i might be an

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astronaut someday

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and the worst part for me the most

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challenging

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difficult not not in a positive way

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was russian language uh i just don't

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have i'm still searching for the

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language center in my brain and we

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really haven't connected well

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so it's something that

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i will always struggle with

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and it's just not it doesn't come easy

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for me and i spend a lot of time on it

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we could are we going to do everybody

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answer every question are you just going

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to press on to the next one

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i think we've got another one ready for

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hi this is jessica watkins and again i

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just want to echo what a privilege it is

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to be able to speak with you today so

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thank you for your time um this question

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actually is is back to peggy again um

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we're just wondering um kind of the the

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transition that you have experienced our

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class has um a lot of women in it and

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recently um the the

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2013 class as well had a large number of

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women in it and so we're just wondering

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um what

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aspects of training maybe um has have

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seen that transition or just kind of

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advices you have advice that you may

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have as a woman going through this

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well i think my advice uh to you as

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women and to any of you uh candidates is

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really

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you've got to work hard

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and i think that the most important

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thing that you're going to find in the

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first few years but actually in your

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career as a whole

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is that

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you know there's a lot of things you

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won't understand

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uh but it's okay to ask questions to a

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point

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there is a limit

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and but

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understand and make you

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make your ideas known as well too

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because once you once you have a feel

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after you've gone through for a year or

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two and you figure out what's happening

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and what's going on

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you'll be seeing things that you're

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thinking why don't we fix this or why

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don't we fix that well take some

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responsibility and help people fix it

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come up with solutions and don't be the

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person that's just always asking why

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don't we be the person that helps find

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answers helps find solutions helps find

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the better way to get things done and i

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think it doesn't matter what your sex is

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this is caleb thanks for your time this

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morning

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you guys touched on the importance of

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teamwork and one of the most exciting

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things about this week for us i think is

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having jenny and josh here in our class

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being complete i was wondering if you

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guys had any advice on working with our

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international partners or any fun

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anecdotes about getting used to those

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well so we have italian colors on

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because we have the italian stallion

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down the down the hall here uh

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it's important it's really important and

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it's not only important to learn the

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language which i remember peggy saying

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russian is only tough for the first 10

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years

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which i still got a few to go

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uh it's not just the language it's the

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culture and understanding

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what drives each culture and and the

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background of a person it's it's no

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different from how you would figure out

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how to get along with anybody in a in a

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small group dynamic um

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but the culture and the traditions that

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help make a person who they are are

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important to understand and embrace and

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we've we've definitely done that with

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our our russian crewmates um it's

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pivotal to understand where they're

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coming from and how they're going to

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react to a situation

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is to understand their background so

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uh it's one of the most important things

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that you're gonna do

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and it's it's it's key to your success

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of being able to work with all the

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international partners which this is an

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all right and for the canadians you

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gotta you know

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uh never mind

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no we got we got canadians of our own

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all right um well this is rob so little

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north of canada or these parts of canada

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i guess

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it's really good to see you guys

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but

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i guess you know you're on station now

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so

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the most challenging times you've had on

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station and reflect on that back to

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your time during afghan training and

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what uh

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you know what kind of parallels you have

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there what ascan brought to that

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i think

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jack just pointed out i had to live with

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him for two months it's probably my most

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challenging situation but no actually

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i think probably the most challenging

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situation i had was

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we had a shuttle docked and we were

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deploying a

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a solar array

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after we had retracted the arrays on a

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previous

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time frame

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and during the deploy we tore it

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the array

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and

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we had to come up with the plan the

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ground team did a phenomenal job they

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came up with a plan uh

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to fix it but in that course of the four

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days and we had some of the most sporty

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robotics going on

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uh we had you know an interesting ifm i

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got to build some uh what they called

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cufflinks to hold the solar array

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together and then we had to put the

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tallest eba guy we had on the end of an

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arm that was extended with a

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a shuttle arm as well

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and we were able to accomplish it

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i think

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that that time frame was very

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challenging we knew we couldn't undock

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the shuttle

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with

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a torn solar array we'd either have to

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jettison and we knew we couldn't retract

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it because it was torn

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so it was it was very

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interesting time for us you know

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stressful in the sense that we knew we

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had to have a solution

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so i guess that would be the most

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challenging time but the the the

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great part was

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that the ground team came up with just a

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i think that may be just about all we

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have time for with the crew before we

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lose them so maybe just one one last

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goodbye and thank you from the from the

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team here on the ground

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and we really appreciate you taking out

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thanks for having us and uh good luck to

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you in in your careers and we can't wait

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you jscpao and all nasa astronaut

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class of 2017 participants

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we are now resuming operational audio

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we'll take questions

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okay so now we are going to take some

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time for you to ask these guys questions

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get to know them a little bit better as

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well um we are you're taking questions

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online via social media you can use the

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ask nasa or just comment in the facebook

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live if you're participating that way

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and if you're a reporter on the phone

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you can press star one if you have a

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question and uh star two if it gets

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answered we'll call on you um and then

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we also have here in the room with us

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some interns from johnson space center

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who also just started here at nasa

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yesterday so you all have something in

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common

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but we already have been getting

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questions online so we'll start with

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them um

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we'll start with jennifer from facebook

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who wants to know what jobs you'll be

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yeah i'll start um so our job for the

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first two years really is uh just to

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learn we have a lot to learn we're going

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to be professional sponges

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so the training includes everything from

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learning the russian language like peggy

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talked about uh two flying t-38 jets um

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learning all of the techniques for space

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walking and all of the engineering

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systems onboard the international space

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station so that's our job for the first

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two years and then we'll get assigned

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all right and uh manuel from facebook

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asked how can he be an astronaut in the

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future so any tips for for how to get

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so i think there's uh obviously if you

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just look around our class there's a

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whole different pattern of different

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paths to wind up being an astronaut so

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there's not one answer to that question

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i think what all the share in common

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though is we all did stuff that we

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really enjoyed doing

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i think having a stem background at some

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point in your education is a that's

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probably the one

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thing you need to do beyond that i think

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it's a matter of becoming passionate

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about what your job is and becoming the

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expert and and continue to do great

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things in it

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and you know there's military paths

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there's non-military paths uh but really

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it's just about enjoying what you do

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and you know trying to continue doing

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that and trying to continue challenging

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yourself maybe going to do things that

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maybe are a little uncomfortable for you

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to do and expand

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sounds good okay

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let me know if you have a question here

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in the room and we'll get a microphone

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around to you but while you're thinking

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about it another question from facebook

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this is from jace and he says hi

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astronaut candidates and what part of

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astronaut training are you most excited

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matthew dominic here really excited

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about hopping in the pool and uh

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simulating spacewalks and just working

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with teams of people as we try and solve

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problems uh here on earth and train and

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get better at doing spacewalks for when

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we do it for real

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okay all right looks like we have a

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question here in the audience i can get

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hi uh my name is paramita and i'm a

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current intern in the human interface

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branch here at nasa johnson and my

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question for you i'm going to kind of

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make it a research data point for myself

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i work with future ar technologies for

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the next generation spacesuit so

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as former pilots and people who have to

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have a high situational awareness

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at all times i know not all of you are

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former pilots but um some of you are

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and then people who are going to be

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going through training with lots of

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workload

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what are some technologies that you guys

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would

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want to implement in a next-generation

558
00:23:21,270 --> 00:23:18,710
so coming from the

559
00:23:22,870 --> 00:23:21,280
the f-35 there's a number of so one of

560
00:23:24,789 --> 00:23:22,880
the challenges is the right mix of

561
00:23:26,789 --> 00:23:24,799
autonomy and human interface and so

562
00:23:28,950 --> 00:23:26,799
that's still an ongoing and as obviously

563
00:23:30,310 --> 00:23:28,960
you're doing an ongoing area of research

564
00:23:32,149 --> 00:23:30,320
i think some of the successful things

565
00:23:34,549 --> 00:23:32,159
have been you know the more you can keep

566
00:23:35,669 --> 00:23:34,559
in what's the conscious field of view uh

567
00:23:38,070 --> 00:23:35,679
and in

568
00:23:41,269 --> 00:23:38,080
whether that be a helmet or your eye

569
00:23:43,269 --> 00:23:41,279
trackers uh 360 degree audio is a huge

570
00:23:44,630 --> 00:23:43,279
tool so using your ear the way it was

571
00:23:45,830 --> 00:23:44,640
designed to and knowing exactly where

572
00:23:48,149 --> 00:23:45,840
sound is coming from as you're

573
00:23:50,070 --> 00:23:48,159
simulating sounds is a useful tool and

574
00:23:51,830 --> 00:23:50,080
then some of the technology i know nasa

575
00:23:53,590 --> 00:23:51,840
is developing with you know checklist

576
00:23:54,870 --> 00:23:53,600
assistance and you know there's a

577
00:23:56,950 --> 00:23:54,880
certain level of automation that can be

578
00:23:58,630 --> 00:23:56,960
too much uh and but the certain level of

579
00:24:00,789 --> 00:23:58,640
automation that you want to have happen

580
00:24:02,310 --> 00:24:00,799
and uh part of that is a personal blend

581
00:24:04,390 --> 00:24:02,320
so one of the things we've struggled

582
00:24:05,430 --> 00:24:04,400
with uh in the air forces you know

583
00:24:06,470 --> 00:24:05,440
having to tailor that to different

584
00:24:07,510 --> 00:24:06,480
people because everyone's different so

585
00:24:08,870 --> 00:24:07,520
that's that's gotta be part of your

586
00:24:10,630 --> 00:24:08,880
solution it has to be tailorable it's

587
00:24:12,549 --> 00:24:10,640
not you know all 14 of us are different

588
00:24:14,310 --> 00:24:12,559
so what works for me may not work at all

589
00:24:16,230 --> 00:24:14,320
for xena and so there has to be some

590
00:24:20,789 --> 00:24:16,240
aspect where you can you can adjust it

591
00:24:25,190 --> 00:24:23,350
one thing that i found interesting is um

592
00:24:27,430 --> 00:24:25,200
we obviously haven't done any evas yet

593
00:24:29,590 --> 00:24:27,440
but the people that have and when they

594
00:24:30,950 --> 00:24:29,600
describe it they describe it as it's

595
00:24:33,669 --> 00:24:30,960
about the same effort as running a

596
00:24:35,669 --> 00:24:33,679
marathon and yet there's no sustainment

597
00:24:38,470 --> 00:24:35,679
really built into it as far as hydration

598
00:24:39,830 --> 00:24:38,480
and you know uh fuel

599
00:24:42,470 --> 00:24:39,840
and yet nobody goes out and runs a

600
00:24:44,470 --> 00:24:42,480
marathon without hydrating and

601
00:24:46,470 --> 00:24:44,480
eating every couple miles and so

602
00:24:47,909 --> 00:24:46,480
something that does that while

603
00:24:49,590 --> 00:24:47,919
maintaining the integrity of the

604
00:24:52,710 --> 00:24:49,600
spacesuit i think would would be an

605
00:24:57,029 --> 00:24:54,230
all right i have another question uh

606
00:24:58,630 --> 00:24:57,039
from facebook uh this one's uh this

607
00:24:59,909 --> 00:24:58,640
one's kind of interesting uh what do you

608
00:25:02,310 --> 00:24:59,919
think your number one quality that

609
00:25:04,149 --> 00:25:02,320
attracted the nasa selection board was

610
00:25:05,350 --> 00:25:04,159
and how did you highlight it as on your

611
00:25:06,310 --> 00:25:05,360
resume or as you were doing your

612
00:25:07,669 --> 00:25:06,320
interviews

613
00:25:09,269 --> 00:25:07,679
i know the process also was a little

614
00:25:11,190 --> 00:25:09,279
different for the canadians as well so

615
00:25:15,110 --> 00:25:11,200
maybe we can get nasa's perspective and

616
00:25:18,070 --> 00:25:16,950
so i think again the canadian process is

617
00:25:20,070 --> 00:25:18,080
a little different than the american

618
00:25:21,190 --> 00:25:20,080
process but i can speak to my experience

619
00:25:23,430 --> 00:25:21,200
and

620
00:25:24,549 --> 00:25:23,440
probably the thing that that i hope

621
00:25:25,510 --> 00:25:24,559
stood out

622
00:25:28,070 --> 00:25:25,520
during

623
00:25:29,990 --> 00:25:28,080
our selection was determination and

624
00:25:31,669 --> 00:25:30,000
resilience because you're really put

625
00:25:33,430 --> 00:25:31,679
through your paces in the selection

626
00:25:34,710 --> 00:25:33,440
process and something that

627
00:25:35,590 --> 00:25:34,720
um

628
00:26:21,990 --> 00:25:35,600
i

629
00:26:24,870 --> 00:26:22,000
you've always demonstrated an eagerness

630
00:26:26,630 --> 00:26:24,880
when faced with new tasks new challenges

631
00:26:28,390 --> 00:26:26,640
to really dive into them head first and

632
00:26:29,590 --> 00:26:28,400
and to go through what you have to go

633
00:26:31,029 --> 00:26:29,600
through to get really really good at

634
00:26:32,630 --> 00:26:31,039
whatever it is that that you're

635
00:26:35,190 --> 00:26:32,640
interested in and whatever it is that

636
00:26:37,669 --> 00:26:35,200
you're doing because here starting these

637
00:26:39,590 --> 00:26:37,679
two years with with this group um it's

638
00:26:42,230 --> 00:26:39,600
all new and there's you know you don't

639
00:26:44,390 --> 00:26:42,240
go to university anywhere um before this

640
00:26:47,110 --> 00:26:44,400
to learn how to be an astronaut so so

641
00:26:49,669 --> 00:26:47,120
that's pretty important

642
00:26:51,029 --> 00:26:49,679
and uh just a reminder for uh reporters

643
00:26:52,710 --> 00:26:51,039
who are on the phone you can press star

644
00:26:54,710 --> 00:26:52,720
one if you have a question to let us

645
00:26:56,230 --> 00:26:54,720
know and we'll we'll come to you but i

646
00:26:57,990 --> 00:26:56,240
think we have a question now from mark

647
00:26:59,510 --> 00:26:58,000
caro here in the room and mark if you

648
00:27:01,269 --> 00:26:59,520
can address it to a particular person so

649
00:27:03,110 --> 00:27:01,279
they know who to who should answer it

650
00:27:04,950 --> 00:27:03,120
that'd be great

651
00:27:07,990 --> 00:27:04,960
yeah i'm gonna fail at that part this is

652
00:27:09,990 --> 00:27:08,000
mark caro from aviation week i i found

653
00:27:11,510 --> 00:27:10,000
the last comment very interesting about

654
00:27:12,310 --> 00:27:11,520
your backgrounds

655
00:27:15,029 --> 00:27:12,320
and

656
00:27:17,029 --> 00:27:15,039
so my question is this

657
00:27:18,950 --> 00:27:17,039
some military some scientists some

658
00:27:21,029 --> 00:27:18,960
engineers

659
00:27:24,070 --> 00:27:21,039
how are you going to stay in touch with

660
00:27:26,870 --> 00:27:24,080
your core professions now that you're

661
00:27:29,750 --> 00:27:26,880
astronauts or do you feel comfortable

662
00:27:31,830 --> 00:27:29,760
that you can sort of let go of that

663
00:27:33,590 --> 00:27:31,840
at this point

664
00:27:35,909 --> 00:27:33,600
thanks

665
00:27:36,710 --> 00:27:35,919
yeah this is uh bob hines uh talking to

666
00:27:38,149 --> 00:27:36,720
uh

667
00:27:39,430 --> 00:27:38,159
i i think that's a great question and

668
00:27:41,029 --> 00:27:39,440
that's something that uh that we

669
00:27:42,630 --> 00:27:41,039
challenge uh we're challenged with in

670
00:27:43,909 --> 00:27:42,640
the astronaut office i've been here for

671
00:27:45,269 --> 00:27:43,919
five years and so i've seen this a

672
00:27:46,870 --> 00:27:45,279
little bit

673
00:27:48,710 --> 00:27:46,880
still from the outside looking in so

674
00:27:51,190 --> 00:27:48,720
i'll see it from a different perspective

675
00:27:52,950 --> 00:27:51,200
now but i think the great thing with

676
00:27:55,510 --> 00:27:52,960
nasa and the astronaut office is one of

677
00:27:58,149 --> 00:27:55,520
the big things we do is outreach

678
00:28:00,070 --> 00:27:58,159
we tend to do that a lot to

679
00:28:01,909 --> 00:28:00,080
school age kids and things like that but

680
00:28:03,990 --> 00:28:01,919
one of the other aspects of that is

681
00:28:05,990 --> 00:28:04,000
getting to talk to uh the professionals

682
00:28:07,430 --> 00:28:06,000
that are out there and the other uh the

683
00:28:09,190 --> 00:28:07,440
other entities that touch the

684
00:28:10,710 --> 00:28:09,200
technologies that we'll be doing or that

685
00:28:12,789 --> 00:28:10,720
we need developed in order to help us

686
00:28:14,470 --> 00:28:12,799
out so that's that's pretty huge

687
00:28:16,389 --> 00:28:14,480
but also going back to the communities

688
00:28:18,310 --> 00:28:16,399
where we all come from and that's that's

689
00:28:19,669 --> 00:28:18,320
really important it gets more and more

690
00:28:21,190 --> 00:28:19,679
challenging as our numbers as an

691
00:28:23,029 --> 00:28:21,200
astronaut corps get

692
00:28:24,710 --> 00:28:23,039
get pretty small

693
00:28:26,549 --> 00:28:24,720
but fortunately i think our class is

694
00:28:28,230 --> 00:28:26,559
going to be like 25 of the astronaut

695
00:28:29,830 --> 00:28:28,240
office by the time we're done so

696
00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:29,840
hopefully we'll help the cause to that

697
00:28:33,590 --> 00:28:30,720
and

698
00:28:36,950 --> 00:28:33,600
help the outreach

699
00:28:42,310 --> 00:28:40,149
all right i've got another question here

700
00:28:44,389 --> 00:28:42,320
hi my name is holly i'm interning here

701
00:28:46,230 --> 00:28:44,399
at johnson i have a question

702
00:28:48,710 --> 00:28:46,240
for the women

703
00:28:49,909 --> 00:28:48,720
you asked peggy about

704
00:28:52,310 --> 00:28:49,919
how to

705
00:28:54,630 --> 00:28:52,320
you know the challenges of being a woman

706
00:28:56,389 --> 00:28:54,640
as an astronaut do you have any advice

707
00:28:58,389 --> 00:28:56,399
for young women who are just emerging in

708
00:29:00,230 --> 00:28:58,399
the stem field on

709
00:29:05,669 --> 00:29:00,240
you know being successful and making a

710
00:29:09,909 --> 00:29:08,470
okay um jasmine mcbelly here so

711
00:29:14,149 --> 00:29:09,919
um

712
00:29:16,549 --> 00:29:14,159
probably myself as you know a marine

713
00:29:17,909 --> 00:29:16,559
corps cobra pilot and uh being in a stem

714
00:29:19,909 --> 00:29:17,919
background certainly been in fields

715
00:29:22,630 --> 00:29:19,919
where that are male dominated for the

716
00:29:25,350 --> 00:29:22,640
most part um but that being said

717
00:29:28,950 --> 00:29:25,360
um i think the best thing that helped me

718
00:29:31,350 --> 00:29:28,960
was not focusing on that at all

719
00:29:33,430 --> 00:29:31,360
try to excel in everything you do

720
00:29:34,389 --> 00:29:33,440
don't even focus on the fact that you're

721
00:29:36,630 --> 00:29:34,399
a woman

722
00:29:39,269 --> 00:29:36,640
in a male-dominated field and work with

723
00:29:42,149 --> 00:29:39,279
your co-workers let them

724
00:29:44,070 --> 00:29:42,159
learn to trust and respect you and you

725
00:29:47,430 --> 00:29:44,080
will

726
00:29:49,350 --> 00:29:47,440
their perspective

727
00:29:52,470 --> 00:29:49,360
you know don't be the person who tries

728
00:29:54,630 --> 00:29:52,480
to use that to to get ahead in any way

729
00:29:56,549 --> 00:29:54,640
be be a team player and

730
00:29:59,350 --> 00:29:56,559
don't don't even really consider it a

731
00:30:00,789 --> 00:29:59,360
factor for the most part um

732
00:30:02,230 --> 00:30:00,799
would be my

733
00:30:05,269 --> 00:30:02,240
advice

734
00:30:09,190 --> 00:30:07,590
i would just i agree with jasmine

735
00:30:10,549 --> 00:30:09,200
entirely i would just add don't be

736
00:30:12,710 --> 00:30:10,559
afraid to fail

737
00:30:13,750 --> 00:30:12,720
um i think that's something that

738
00:30:15,269 --> 00:30:13,760
was

739
00:30:17,669 --> 00:30:15,279
you know kind of in the back of my mind

740
00:30:19,110 --> 00:30:17,679
when i was choosing to study engineering

741
00:30:21,430 --> 00:30:19,120
choosing to go in the submarine warfare

742
00:30:23,110 --> 00:30:21,440
community that you might feel like a

743
00:30:24,950 --> 00:30:23,120
spotlight's on you because there aren't

744
00:30:26,070 --> 00:30:24,960
as many women in your field and that

745
00:30:27,430 --> 00:30:26,080
people are paying a little bit more

746
00:30:29,190 --> 00:30:27,440
attention to your performance and how

747
00:30:30,870 --> 00:30:29,200
you're doing um

748
00:30:32,310 --> 00:30:30,880
and i think if you do what jasmine said

749
00:30:34,549 --> 00:30:32,320
just focus on being part of a team and

750
00:30:36,470 --> 00:30:34,559
contributing people really take that on

751
00:30:38,710 --> 00:30:36,480
board and try to support you and then

752
00:30:40,310 --> 00:30:38,720
when you do fail or falter

753
00:30:42,630 --> 00:30:40,320
you'll have people around you to help

754
00:30:44,310 --> 00:30:42,640
you move on from that and continue on

755
00:30:46,710 --> 00:30:44,320
but if you let that fear of failure or

756
00:30:48,710 --> 00:30:46,720
fear of the spotlight on you get to you

757
00:30:50,470 --> 00:30:48,720
you'll prevent yourself from really

758
00:30:52,230 --> 00:30:50,480
reaching for the things that the goals

759
00:30:54,070 --> 00:30:52,240
that are important to you so i just

760
00:30:57,110 --> 00:30:54,080
encourage you to

761
00:30:59,029 --> 00:30:57,120
focus on overcoming them

762
00:31:00,789 --> 00:30:59,039
changing tracks a little bit rudolph

763
00:31:02,549 --> 00:31:00,799
from facebook wants to know if you all

764
00:31:04,630 --> 00:31:02,559
are going to mars and maybe you can talk

765
00:31:08,310 --> 00:31:04,640
about some of the some of the

766
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,230
all right everyone's looking at me

767
00:31:18,549 --> 00:31:16,149
um i don't know the answer to that um i

768
00:31:20,230 --> 00:31:18,559
you know it's day two so they haven't uh

769
00:31:22,310 --> 00:31:20,240
told us that yet where we'll be headed

770
00:31:25,190 --> 00:31:22,320
but um i would certainly love to go to

771
00:31:27,269 --> 00:31:25,200
mars i know that um nasa really is um

772
00:31:29,669 --> 00:31:27,279
looking forward to kind of expanding

773
00:31:31,509 --> 00:31:29,679
human presence in the solar system um

774
00:31:33,590 --> 00:31:31,519
and looking at long-duration flights and

775
00:31:35,669 --> 00:31:33,600
and pushing those boundaries um and if

776
00:31:37,669 --> 00:31:35,679
mars is on the docket or at the end of

777
00:31:40,310 --> 00:31:37,679
that journey um that'd be really

778
00:31:42,389 --> 00:31:40,320
exciting especially for me someone who's

779
00:31:43,669 --> 00:31:42,399
done a lot of work on mars

780
00:31:45,509 --> 00:31:43,679
but yeah i think there are a lot of

781
00:31:47,830 --> 00:31:45,519
exciting places in between as well and

782
00:31:50,230 --> 00:31:47,840
certainly be excited to be assigned to

783
00:31:52,870 --> 00:31:50,240
go anywhere

784
00:31:53,909 --> 00:31:52,880
all right another question from facebook

785
00:31:56,070 --> 00:31:53,919
uh

786
00:31:58,830 --> 00:31:56,080
what college majors are required for

787
00:32:04,710 --> 00:32:02,230
candidates i'll go ahead um so in order

788
00:32:06,789 --> 00:32:04,720
to be a astronaut candidate or in order

789
00:32:08,230 --> 00:32:06,799
to apply you need a degree in a stem

790
00:32:11,269 --> 00:32:08,240
field so that's

791
00:32:12,870 --> 00:32:11,279
a science field mathematics engineering

792
00:32:17,669 --> 00:32:12,880
um or

793
00:32:22,950 --> 00:32:19,110
good job

794
00:32:25,350 --> 00:32:22,960
all right any questions here in the room

795
00:32:27,269 --> 00:32:25,360
looks like we've got one in the back

796
00:32:28,950 --> 00:32:27,279
hi my name is courtney and i'm with the

797
00:32:31,269 --> 00:32:28,960
internship coordinators and we'd like to

798
00:32:33,830 --> 00:32:31,279
say congratulations first of all and

799
00:32:35,430 --> 00:32:33,840
second we all know that to raise to the

800
00:32:37,430 --> 00:32:35,440
heights of where you are now that we

801
00:32:39,669 --> 00:32:37,440
can't get there without the people that

802
00:32:41,430 --> 00:32:39,679
are helping us up and i'd like to know

803
00:32:42,470 --> 00:32:41,440
are there any particular

804
00:32:45,350 --> 00:32:42,480
circumstances

805
00:32:51,430 --> 00:32:45,360
where someone has mentored you that you

806
00:32:55,990 --> 00:32:53,669
yeah i have so many examples of this as

807
00:32:59,269 --> 00:32:56,000
i'm sure we all do i could go on for

808
00:33:01,350 --> 00:32:59,279
half an hour um for me one of the

809
00:33:03,269 --> 00:33:01,360
really breakthrough moments of my

810
00:33:04,870 --> 00:33:03,279
undergraduate career was

811
00:33:08,149 --> 00:33:04,880
i decided i really wanted to go to

812
00:33:09,909 --> 00:33:08,159
antarctica and i emailed gosh like 80

813
00:33:11,669 --> 00:33:09,919
different pis

814
00:33:13,990 --> 00:33:11,679
principal investigators scientists who

815
00:33:16,470 --> 00:33:14,000
did research there um just out of the

816
00:33:18,149 --> 00:33:16,480
blue dear so and so my name is xena i

817
00:33:20,470 --> 00:33:18,159
have no experience going to antarctica

818
00:33:22,389 --> 00:33:20,480
take me with you and of course most of

819
00:33:23,990 --> 00:33:22,399
them didn't even reply

820
00:33:25,830 --> 00:33:24,000
those who did said you know sorry we

821
00:33:28,149 --> 00:33:25,840
don't have funding or

822
00:33:29,669 --> 00:33:28,159
we just don't have room for you um

823
00:33:32,950 --> 00:33:29,679
you're an undergrad

824
00:33:34,870 --> 00:33:32,960
uh but actually a couple of them said

825
00:33:36,789 --> 00:33:34,880
yes uh they took a chance on someone

826
00:33:39,269 --> 00:33:36,799
they'd never met and were willing to

827
00:33:41,269 --> 00:33:39,279
work with an undergrad um and so that's

828
00:33:43,350 --> 00:33:41,279
been something i've tried to pay forward

829
00:33:44,389 --> 00:33:43,360
in my short career

830
00:33:46,230 --> 00:33:44,399
um

831
00:33:47,669 --> 00:33:46,240
is you know being open to taking high

832
00:33:49,269 --> 00:33:47,679
school students and undergrads on board

833
00:33:52,389 --> 00:33:49,279
because it made a huge huge difference

834
00:33:54,070 --> 00:33:52,399
for me

835
00:33:56,230 --> 00:33:54,080
and matthew did you want to comment as

836
00:33:58,230 --> 00:33:56,240
well uh my mind's a little bit different

837
00:34:01,269 --> 00:33:58,240
uh i grew up uh my family didn't really

838
00:34:02,389 --> 00:34:01,279
have any stem background uh they my

839
00:34:03,509 --> 00:34:02,399
parents were amazed my family was

840
00:34:04,389 --> 00:34:03,519
amazing growing up which didn't have

841
00:34:05,350 --> 00:34:04,399
stem

842
00:34:06,870 --> 00:34:05,360
uh

843
00:34:09,109 --> 00:34:06,880
you know nobody had that field like i

844
00:34:10,869 --> 00:34:09,119
did stem as a child uh and growing up my

845
00:34:13,109 --> 00:34:10,879
parents provided all those things but

846
00:34:15,030 --> 00:34:13,119
nobody in my family was in a stem field

847
00:34:17,190 --> 00:34:15,040
at all uh and i actually showed up to

848
00:34:18,389 --> 00:34:17,200
college uh wanting to be a political

849
00:34:19,589 --> 00:34:18,399
science major

850
00:34:21,030 --> 00:34:19,599
and uh

851
00:34:22,869 --> 00:34:21,040
somebody told me hey well what you're

852
00:34:25,109 --> 00:34:22,879
you did well in math and science growing

853
00:34:26,950 --> 00:34:25,119
up uh why don't why don't you become an

854
00:34:29,270 --> 00:34:26,960
engineer and i thought engineers drove

855
00:34:30,389 --> 00:34:29,280
trains uh so he like he gave me

856
00:34:31,669 --> 00:34:30,399
assignment to go look it up and figure

857
00:34:33,349 --> 00:34:31,679
out what it was and i ended up becoming

858
00:34:34,950 --> 00:34:33,359
electrical engineer as an undergrad and

859
00:34:36,629 --> 00:34:34,960
that person that mentor changed my life

860
00:34:37,990 --> 00:34:36,639
i actually ended up looking him up in

861
00:34:39,349 --> 00:34:38,000
the phone book like six or seven years

862
00:34:40,950 --> 00:34:39,359
later and just calling him and saying

863
00:34:41,990 --> 00:34:40,960
thanks like hey do you remember me from

864
00:34:43,349 --> 00:34:42,000
seven years ago you told me that

865
00:34:46,629 --> 00:34:43,359
engineers can build things they don't

866
00:34:50,790 --> 00:34:48,869
good advice yeah all right um so

867
00:34:52,869 --> 00:34:50,800
christopher from ann arbor michigan

868
00:34:54,790 --> 00:34:52,879
wants to know are you being trained for

869
00:34:56,149 --> 00:34:54,800
the space station or other missions i

870
00:34:57,670 --> 00:34:56,159
know you're just starting your training

871
00:35:01,030 --> 00:34:57,680
but hopefully you know a little bit

872
00:35:05,670 --> 00:35:03,109
i guess the answer is yes uh this is bob

873
00:35:07,589 --> 00:35:05,680
hines uh by the way uh

874
00:35:10,390 --> 00:35:07,599
so uh yes we're being trained for uh the

875
00:35:12,470 --> 00:35:10,400
space station uh but i i guess i've been

876
00:35:15,510 --> 00:35:12,480
quoted somewhere saying uh the space

877
00:35:17,829 --> 00:35:15,520
world is our oyster uh right now so

878
00:35:19,910 --> 00:35:17,839
uh we're at a very unique time i think

879
00:35:21,349 --> 00:35:19,920
in the space program and uh it's pretty

880
00:35:22,790 --> 00:35:21,359
unique and you know if you look at the

881
00:35:24,310 --> 00:35:22,800
history of the space program it's been

882
00:35:26,710 --> 00:35:24,320
very linear up to this point it's been

883
00:35:28,550 --> 00:35:26,720
gemini led to sorry mercury led to

884
00:35:30,470 --> 00:35:28,560
gemini led to apollo which led to the

885
00:35:32,790 --> 00:35:30,480
shuttle and now

886
00:35:34,150 --> 00:35:32,800
our class is unique in we potentially

887
00:35:35,829 --> 00:35:34,160
have the opportunity to be on any of

888
00:35:37,349 --> 00:35:35,839
five different vehicles between the

889
00:35:38,950 --> 00:35:37,359
soyuz and the space station which are

890
00:35:40,630 --> 00:35:38,960
currently out there now

891
00:35:42,069 --> 00:35:40,640
boeing and spacex are building a couple

892
00:35:45,270 --> 00:35:42,079
of vehicles

893
00:35:47,829 --> 00:35:45,280
and then we've got the orion and sls

894
00:35:49,270 --> 00:35:47,839
coming down the pipe as well so uh

895
00:35:51,270 --> 00:35:49,280
looking at the timing for all of that

896
00:35:53,349 --> 00:35:51,280
stuff uh any of us would be thrilled to

897
00:35:54,470 --> 00:35:53,359
get on any one of those vehicles out

898
00:35:56,710 --> 00:35:54,480
there i don't think anyone's going to

899
00:35:59,270 --> 00:35:56,720
turn down a space flight

900
00:36:01,589 --> 00:35:59,280
anyone

901
00:36:03,190 --> 00:36:01,599
so yes we're being trained uh you know

902
00:36:04,550 --> 00:36:03,200
initially on space station we'll learn

903
00:36:06,230 --> 00:36:04,560
all the systems because a lot of the

904
00:36:07,910 --> 00:36:06,240
work that we'll be doing

905
00:36:09,430 --> 00:36:07,920
immediately following azcan will be

906
00:36:10,870 --> 00:36:09,440
directly supporting the space station

907
00:36:12,710 --> 00:36:10,880
mission but in terms of space flight

908
00:36:15,349 --> 00:36:12,720
assignments moving forward

909
00:36:17,510 --> 00:36:15,359
we could go we go anywhere

910
00:36:19,589 --> 00:36:17,520
and it's a it's an amazing thought to

911
00:36:21,270 --> 00:36:19,599
sit here and be able to say that so

912
00:36:23,030 --> 00:36:21,280
we're obviously all super excited about

913
00:36:24,870 --> 00:36:23,040
the opportunity

914
00:36:26,790 --> 00:36:24,880
all right i think we have time for one

915
00:36:28,390 --> 00:36:26,800
more question here in the room if you've

916
00:36:32,069 --> 00:36:28,400
got one

917
00:36:35,030 --> 00:36:32,079
looks like there's a question here

918
00:36:36,790 --> 00:36:35,040
hi my name is emily malden um i just

919
00:36:38,950 --> 00:36:36,800
want to start by saying congratulations

920
00:36:41,670 --> 00:36:38,960
and i'm excited to be here with you guys

921
00:36:43,349 --> 00:36:41,680
i was wondering what experiments or

922
00:36:45,670 --> 00:36:43,359
pieces of technology you are looking

923
00:36:48,710 --> 00:36:45,680
forward to most either during your

924
00:36:50,150 --> 00:36:48,720
training or while you're up in the iss

925
00:36:52,950 --> 00:36:50,160
in zero gravity

926
00:36:54,470 --> 00:36:52,960
what are you looking forward to most um

927
00:37:01,430 --> 00:36:54,480
with

928
00:37:05,430 --> 00:37:03,510
i think what i'm looking forward to most

929
00:37:07,109 --> 00:37:05,440
is just fixing things on the space

930
00:37:09,829 --> 00:37:07,119
station

931
00:37:11,829 --> 00:37:09,839
uh i'm an engineer and technician um

932
00:37:13,990 --> 00:37:11,839
before this and that's what i really

933
00:37:15,589 --> 00:37:14,000
like doing so when things break and you

934
00:37:17,430 --> 00:37:15,599
have to go fix them

935
00:37:22,390 --> 00:37:17,440
that's what i'm probably most excited

936
00:37:26,950 --> 00:37:24,230
all right go ahead

937
00:37:28,790 --> 00:37:26,960
yeah sure um i can speak from a research

938
00:37:30,870 --> 00:37:28,800
science background i'm a microbiologist

939
00:37:33,109 --> 00:37:30,880
by training but i'm actually most

940
00:37:35,270 --> 00:37:33,119
excited not to be doing my own research

941
00:37:36,790 --> 00:37:35,280
anymore and to be

942
00:37:38,630 --> 00:37:36,800
just to be part of something that's so

943
00:37:41,430 --> 00:37:38,640
much bigger than any of the research i

944
00:37:42,870 --> 00:37:41,440
could be doing on my own um and a lot of

945
00:37:45,829 --> 00:37:42,880
the research that happens on the space

946
00:37:47,349 --> 00:37:45,839
station has very direct applications you

947
00:37:49,589 --> 00:37:47,359
know not only for the astronauts but

948
00:37:52,150 --> 00:37:49,599
also for people back on earth

949
00:37:54,470 --> 00:37:52,160
so research on bone density loss in

950
00:37:56,550 --> 00:37:54,480
space has applications for

951
00:37:58,150 --> 00:37:56,560
bone mass wasting diseases here on earth

952
00:38:03,990 --> 00:37:58,160
and i think that's really cool it's a

953
00:38:06,870 --> 00:38:05,030
i guess we're all excited about

954
00:38:09,750 --> 00:38:06,880
technology um

955
00:38:11,349 --> 00:38:09,760
so as a uh you know hobbyist pilot but a

956
00:38:12,790 --> 00:38:11,359
non with a non-military background i

957
00:38:14,150 --> 00:38:12,800
think i'm really excited about getting

958
00:38:16,150 --> 00:38:14,160
in some really high performance

959
00:38:18,150 --> 00:38:16,160
airplanes like the t-38

960
00:38:20,310 --> 00:38:18,160
learning from my colleagues who have a

961
00:38:24,870 --> 00:38:20,320
huge amount of flight experience and

962
00:38:29,670 --> 00:38:27,589
um and then i'm an engineer as well my

963
00:38:30,790 --> 00:38:29,680
name is rob i'm a aerospace engineer the

964
00:38:32,550 --> 00:38:30,800
last six and a half years but i come

965
00:38:34,790 --> 00:38:32,560
from a material science and mechanical

966
00:38:36,470 --> 00:38:34,800
engineering background

967
00:38:37,589 --> 00:38:36,480
but you know what kind of like xeno was

968
00:38:39,829 --> 00:38:37,599
saying i'm really looking forward to

969
00:38:41,270 --> 00:38:39,839
doing things outside of my field

970
00:38:43,430 --> 00:38:41,280
so i'm actually really psyched about the

971
00:38:45,670 --> 00:38:43,440
biology stuff i kind of miss that from

972
00:38:47,430 --> 00:38:45,680
from college

973
00:38:48,630 --> 00:38:47,440
and uh with my material science

974
00:38:49,829 --> 00:38:48,640
background actually i think there's

975
00:38:52,069 --> 00:38:49,839
probably some bridging to be done there

976
00:38:53,430 --> 00:38:52,079
between biology and material science um

977
00:38:55,430 --> 00:38:53,440
and i know they do some fantastic

978
00:38:57,750 --> 00:38:55,440
experiments uh on station that you can't

979
00:39:00,069 --> 00:38:57,760
do uh on earth uh just due to the lack

980
00:39:01,829 --> 00:39:00,079
of gravity up there so

981
00:39:03,750 --> 00:39:01,839
yeah for me it's it's the whole looking

982
00:39:04,950 --> 00:39:03,760
and learning new things that i haven't

983
00:39:07,750 --> 00:39:04,960
you know been able to do these last few

984
00:39:11,430 --> 00:39:09,430
all right i think that's just about all

985
00:39:13,349 --> 00:39:11,440
that we have time for so we're going to

986
00:39:14,790 --> 00:39:13,359
wrap up now but these guys are just

987
00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:14,800
getting started you're going to want to

988
00:39:19,349 --> 00:39:16,320
stay tuned on

989
00:39:23,030 --> 00:39:21,589
2017 astronauts to keep up with their

990
00:39:24,390 --> 00:39:23,040
activities as they go forward in their

991
00:39:27,190 --> 00:39:24,400
training and we actually just posted

992
00:39:28,710 --> 00:39:27,200
some videos that we of us asking them

993
00:39:30,150 --> 00:39:28,720
some questions as well so you can get to

994
00:39:32,390 --> 00:39:30,160
know them a little bit better there and

995
00:39:34,790 --> 00:39:32,400
then you can also keep up with them on

996
00:39:36,630 --> 00:39:34,800
social media for now you can go to the

997
00:39:39,109 --> 00:39:36,640
nasa astronaut account on twitter which

998
00:39:40,470 --> 00:39:39,119
is at nasa underscore astronauts

999
00:39:42,310 --> 00:39:40,480
and that is going to be it for the day