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thank you very much you're welcome

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chairman of the examination commission

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5354 expedition crew is ready for the

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examination

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it's very

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glad i'm very glad to hear

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that and very glad to see here

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oh i definitely feel ready i think the

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instructors here in star city gctc have

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done a fantastic job of getting me ready

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for this backup float absolutely

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all three of us together are family and

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uh and we're just part of a

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multinational crew and uh we're all

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we're all working together and going

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down on the same path so it's been a

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beautiful experience

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i cannot do anything just flying space

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with the professionals like

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mr chairman of the examination

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commission the prime crew is here to

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about six months but it's gone really

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really well they put together a great

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plan i have a very uh excellent crew

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with me an experienced commander and so

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we're ready to go it's been great

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honestly i think no matter what

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country that our crew members are from

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we it would be just as good the fact

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that i can communicate very easily with

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joe makes life a little bit easier for

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me

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and the fact that both these guys are

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such good people and have become great

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friends is really the most important

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i don't want you think that we

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stay here and trying to tell our best

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words about our

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our friends and the crew mates

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i'm like a guy thank god i'm really

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happy to be in the one crew with two

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gentlemen these gentlemen

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i hope we will have very nice flight it

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should be smooth and very fun and very

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all cameras are ready your questions

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bear than there is in houston right now

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um it's a very nice time of year to be

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in baikonur and i'm really happy to be

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able to to launch from there along with

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such great people

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the weather is great it's like

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myself and then ricky arnold will follow

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so we'll have a a year of education in

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and it's a great opportunity

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to highlight the teaching profession and

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school and in education is and in

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space station in order to help out the

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teachers that are out there working hard

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the fact that we're going to launch

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closer to the launch date

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means that i'll get to see my wife

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for a flight um it was a three-year

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around the world did a fantastic job of

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intense at times and it takes a lot of

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at our european partners at our jackson

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partners and at houston

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just absolutely wonderful people that

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really care about their jobs that do

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everything they can to make us operate

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safely and efficiently

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and with faithful support of us going

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through the program it's absolutely

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need to help each other yes that's

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all right let's take a photograph of two

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unions

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please look at me one more time

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attention please

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you got it yeah we're uh we're

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definitely ready we just finished our

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final exams well we're taking part uh

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some of the great russian traditions out

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here uh down at red square in the

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kremlin so uh from here a few days of

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i've got nothing to add really it's a

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wonderful day i'm really really excited

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that was a big step over the last couple

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days as we finished those exams and

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everything here is just looking good you

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did great you did too man

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i'd like to thank my family for all the

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support they've given us and also all

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the people in the entire team across the

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world that's done an amazing job

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preparing us to do this next step which

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is going to be in space for the good of

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humanity

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yeah i'd like to say a big thank you to

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a lot of folks back in houston that

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helped out uh with the hurricane that

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came through i know i had a little bit

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of damage and

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all of nasa has really pulled together

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as a team it shows what we do not only

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in space but on the ground when uh when

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i'm a flight engineer of the backup crew

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joe's here

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this is our flight engineer

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this is my mom

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hi nice to meet you nice to meet you

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my grandmother

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nice to meet you my sister marina

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and her husband nikolai

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very nice to meet you my niece

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and my wonderful children

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valentina you know her she is wife yes

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of course hi very good to see you

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and one more sister is here

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okay so shall we

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is sasha here

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i'm feeling great i'm feeling great

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hello bear good to see you

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both mark and joe

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this launch begins a year

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three nasa astronauts on board the

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station and expanded u.s hormonal

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segment presence how critical is all of

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that for

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augmenting scientific research on board

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communication

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well it's uh extremely important as you

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can imagine uh we have a greater

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workforce up there so it gives us a lot

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more time to get the important work done

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i mean we're there to do science and

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maintain the space station so having

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more help just makes it a lot easier for

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us and we'll get a lot done in the next

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year

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time is a resource and the fact that

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we'll have more time and the manpower to

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go along with it

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it's important we'll get some stuff done

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and we're looking forward to starting to

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a month from now you all will be on

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orbit on the 60th anniversary of the

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launching of sputnik which began this

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whole adventure of space exploration

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you know obviously we've come a long way

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if you look at the international space

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station it's just an incredible art of

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engineering so we've come a long way but

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the interesting thing is we're still

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learning a lot and there's still a lot

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more we have to learn and i think it's a

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great opportunity to get students

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excited now because we're going to

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celebrate that anniversary we can talk

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about how we got there and how we got to

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where we are today so it's a great time

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and i'd add to that that we've had

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we've gone from 60 years ago having a

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satellite in orbit to having

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not just one person but multiple people

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in orbit together from multiple nations

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accomplishing science every day where

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it's it's a huge leap forward and like

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joe alluded to we're going to continue

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progressing and it's really amazing to

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um