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houston this is station we are ready for

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and gaylord st mary's cathedral this is

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mission control houston please call

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station for a voice check

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station this is debbie roberts here with

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the students from st mary's do you hear

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we hear you loud and clear gaylord saint

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mary's cathedral school welcome aboard

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good morning i'm nicole hatch i'm the

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principal here and on behalf of the

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snowbirds and mayor jenkins we would

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like to welcome you to our school we

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will get started with our 20 questions

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hi joe

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hello yeah it was always a dream of mine

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to come to space

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there were people that were walking on

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the moon and that was very exciting i'd

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like to read books that talked about

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people going to different planets so

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ever since i was young i had this dream

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of coming to space and i'm lucky enough

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hi randy i'm gracie do you ever have to

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clean the windows on the outer or the

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we do have to clean the windows

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on the inside because you know us human

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beings we've got skin we've got oils

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shed off some of our stuff and so we

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especially we want to take pictures we

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don't clean them on the outside

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somebody on a spacewalk one time tried

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to clean it and touched it with their

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glove and left a smudge mark that's

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hi joe i'm brad

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before and after you took off from earth

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hey brad well you know before you launch

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to go to space you're really really

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excited people ask you if you're scared

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almost like you know that day you're

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going to the amusement park and you're

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all pumped up you've been waiting a long

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time to go so that's a great feeling

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and then when it's time to finally come

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home you kind of have the mixed feelings

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part of you you know wants to stay on

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the space station because it's very cool

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to be up here and be weightless

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back home to your family and friends and

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hi randy we are liam and andrew what

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jobs do you do in space besides being an

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liam and andrew great question we have

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a space walks repairing the robotic arm

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outside and take care of the airlock and

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clean space days we've got to take out

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the trash and vacuum and clean up the

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here to show you what it's like to be in

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the surprising or unexpected research

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station that is underwater aquarius

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communications and breathing tubes and

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aquarius is still there and people can

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go on there's a hashtag for aquarius

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recovery they can see what the what the

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current status is and hopefully we'll

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get it back to an operational state

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quarantine where we try to stay as

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you get up here if you're healthy you're

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orbit it's called orion so we can play

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hi joe i'm rem what does it feel like

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their life so it's pretty cool and

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physically joyful feeling you know you

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get used to it and the joy on their face

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hi joe i'm lake how do you put out fires

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birthday where i had it actually on my

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body's growth be affected by

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you know that's a great question and we

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don't know for sure the answer to that

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but we know in the time that we're up

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in these six months that our bodies do

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change and so we're doing a lot of

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medical tests while we're on the space

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station before we leave and when we get

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home to see how our bodies react and

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change while we're up here so i'm sure

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if we had somebody that was born in

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space i can guarantee you there would be

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some differences that we would notice

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but we just don't know yet what those

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hi randy i'm donovan have you ever seen

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space trash floating by is space trash a

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the the space trash that we see is on

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the inside and we generate it and we

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store it and then we send it back in our

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cargo vehicles

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one that brings actually land the other

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one's actually burnt up in the

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atmosphere

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so when you look up under the night sky

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and you see a shooting star

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it may not always be a shooting star it

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may be

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our trash

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now i think your question though is

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probably more for sp trash outside

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in in the orbit we're at low earth orbit

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about 250 miles or 400 kilometers um we

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have space trash from much higher orbits

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actually pass through and if it passes

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through gets close enough station we can

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maneuver to avoid it but out there in

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the outer areas where there's a lot of

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satellites there is a lot of trash and

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that's going to be a really really big

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problem we actually have the air force

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and we have the faa

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with radar they're trying to track all

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that stuff to make sure that we don't

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have an issue with where the people are

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but when we want to go to the moon we go

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to mars and go other places in the solar

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system we're going to have to go through

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that belt of trash and so certainly that

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is a concern that we didn't have 50

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years ago that we're going to worry

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about having to figure out how to clear

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up that trash and keep that area clean

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so we don't have a high thread area to

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hey joe i'm andrew would it be possible

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to launch missions to other planets and

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hey andrew so

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the iss is really a

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it's a working laboratory and that's

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what we're doing up here most of the day

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we have this micro

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gravity environment so it's not really

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made for us to

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launch other vehicles they're going to

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go to other planets from here we do

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launch some small satellites for some

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educational and research purposes

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but you know the idea of having a space

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station in which we can launch vehicles

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to other planets is one that nasa is

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thinking about and working towards so i

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think it's an exciting time and

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hopefully you guys there that are into

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the sciences can think about how we can

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do that because the goal is for us to go

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much much further than we are today so

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hopefully we'll see that

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here in our lifetimes and have some

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space stations out there that are

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building

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spaceships and going to different

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hi randy i'm sophie are you ever scared

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are you ever scared good question

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i think at some point everybody's scared

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um

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but as you are learning

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bravery is not the absence of being

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scared or being feared it's overcoming

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being scared and certainly the first

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time you know you're on a spacewalk and

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the first time it goes tonight and

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you're out there hanging on the space

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station going around the earth at 17 500

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miles an hour

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and you're outside 250 miles above the

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earth

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that can be a little scary but what we

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do is we try and be brave and we go

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ahead and remember the procedures that

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we were taught the training that we had

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and we just keep working little by

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little step by step and that's a way to

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not be scared

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hi joe i'm maggie

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how has your perspective on life changed

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wow that's a that's a tough question

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you know when you get to the space

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station for the first time and you look

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back on our beautiful planet

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you can't help but just change the way

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you think about certain things we all

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grow up i live in my city

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i live in this county i live in the

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state i live in the united states but

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when you're off of earth and you're

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looking down on the entire planet now

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instead of that one house that you live

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in you're looking at the entire

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sphere of where humans live

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and you see how we're all interconnected

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how we just have this thin layer that's

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keeping us safe from space

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and so you know i look and say we're

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fortunate to have such a beautiful home

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and then i also think this is all of our

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planet so

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it's something that we have to work

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together to preserve it um and we're

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just all one people and you just it

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really stands out when you see the

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hi wendy

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i'm skyler

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can you do a one finger push up can you

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all right scott we'll go ahead and show

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you what we can do up here and i'll have

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astronaut joe

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so he's doing the regular two-handed

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push-ups like you guys would do down

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there

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oh he's getting strong he can do one arm

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one finger i see it

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no hands so yes to answer your question

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hey joe i'm taylor do you use artificial

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so we don't have this cool button that

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we could flip that would make artificial

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gravity for us but we do have

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centrifuges up here so we can spin

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things and depending on how fast we spin

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it it can simulate different types of

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gravity so we do have that up here

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also what's kind of cool is if you have

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a bag

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that's full of water and air and a lot

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of times you want to get that air out of

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it you have to spin that around

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in order to get the air and the water

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separated and so we use that as well so

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no artificial gravity button that we

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have but we do have ways to put a little

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hi randy i'm sean what did the solar

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the solar eclipse was amazing to see you

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know we're used to looking down at the

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earth with the browns and the blues and

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then the whites of the clouds and for a

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lot of the solar eclipse we could see

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the the solar eclipse on the ground when

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it was coming over the united states um

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it was just this big black dark hole and

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so the clouds are so bright and white it

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really made the black stand out we were

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so surprised how huge the shadow of the

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moon was and how it made stuff on the

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far side of the shadow look so different

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um and then we also had two passes we

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were over the pacific ocean and over the

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atlantic where we could look up and see

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the sun at the maximum eclipse point and

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special filters you know glasses like

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you guys had on the ground and same kind

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of things on our cameras watching the

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sun go over and just eclipse the moon

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and just leave a sliver of the moon

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showing that was really neat to see too

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so hopefully you got to see those

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well joe and randy thank you so much for

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spending this time with us

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you are so inspiring we are so excited

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to be able to speak with you and get

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through all of our questions

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we will pray for you as you continue

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thank you very much it's been a pleasure

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to be with you all today and as a former

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educator it's always cool to be back in

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school so thanks for joining us on the

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station this is houston acr that

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and thank you to all participants from

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