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good morning and welcome to johnson

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space center and a special facebook live

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event i'm brandi dean from the public

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affairs office and joining me today we

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have kirk shireman the program manager

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of the space station program

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thank you it's great to be here i'm

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excited to be part of this event well we

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have an exciting event we're going to be

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talking soon with uh

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astronauts joe acaba and paolo nespoli

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and they are going to be helping us kick

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off the year of education on the space

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station as you may know joe is a former

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teacher who taught in middle school uh

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in and

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math and science in florida for several

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years before coming to nasa and then

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later this year one of his astronaut

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classmates ricky arnold will also be

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going to the international space station

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he also has quite a bit of extensive

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classroom experience

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so in recognition of their

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special background as educators this

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school year nasa and the cruise aboard

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space station are going to be using that

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special platform of the station to

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really uh push hard to inspire teachers

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and students here on the ground

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kurt maybe you can tell us a little bit

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about why that seemed like a good idea

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for the space station program sure well

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we had a unique opportunity uh this year

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to uh to expand the u.s uh crew members

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and uh and then in the in the selection

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of the crew members to go fly those we

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we ended up with uh with joe acaba and

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ricky arnold and of course uh i would

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say it was not chosen that way but but

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since they were both had educational

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background uh both educators

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uh it just seemed like a great fit what

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a what a great opportunity for us to go

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put a renewed and perhaps a much larger

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emphasis on education on board the

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international space station so it really

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was a a a unique opportunity and unique

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crew members said hey let's go do this

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so i'm really excited about the

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opportunity this year and and i really

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hope that we'll take full advantage and

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and have the chance to touch many many

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kids and and educators across the nation

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absolutely i think the way we're going

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to do that or a few of the ways we're

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going to be doing that is giving some

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extra time to the crews to talk with

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students here on the ground maybe even

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doubling

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what we normally do and then also asking

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them to do some special

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demonstrations that we're calling

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demonstrations for uh stem the science

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engineering and mathematics

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giving them a chance to show what some

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of the science experiments that we might

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want to do here on the ground look like

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in space sure we you know iss is a

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fantastic laboratory it's a laboratory

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like like no other

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national labs across the united states

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that do very unique things but

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but this one in particular does things

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that are so out of the ordinary for all

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of us it's just

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the kid in all of us i think comes out

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when you get to see what goes on the

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international space station so we grab

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people's attention because it's in space

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and then we can use that to really touch

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and inspire people to go

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uh work on their education so i think we

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have a really unique opportunity with

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this national laboratory and with these

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educators this year so we'll uh we'll

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see how it goes i think that's got to be

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one of the best opportunities that we

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have to inspire students i know i would

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have been amazed to have an opportunity

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like this when i was in school

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absolutely you know of course when i was

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we didn't have people living and working

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in space

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but but today

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we've had we've had people living and

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for uh for 16 years coming up on

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actually coming up on 17 years and so

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there's there's people who are

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seniors in high school who've never

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known a time when humans weren't living

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and working in space and we want to we

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want to make sure that people

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know about that and are inspired by that

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so this is again it's a great

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opportunity um and and we have the

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ability we have the people who have

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those skills on board and uh and we're

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going to take advantage of it

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and how long have you been with nasa

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i've been with nasa since 1985 may 20th

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1985. so you've seen a lot of changes

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over the years and i'm sure the stations

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involve evolved a lot under under your

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leadership as well um anything that you

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think that would truly amaze students

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that you're hoping they'll get out of

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uh you know the the thing that's always

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amazing to me anyway is

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you think things work a certain way and

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it turns out that they don't and so

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space is a great opportunity to see it

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certainly you can see very quickly that

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that they work differently um up there

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than they do here but even the ones you

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can imagine how they work and it turns

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out that they don't work that way that's

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that's the really cool thing so uh i i

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hope that we'll see that and then the

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next question is well why does it work

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differently than i expected and that's

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where it really ties into education what

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is the physics behind what's going on

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and how does that physics or that

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knowledge of the physics didn't allow

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apply to to problems whether they're in

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space or on the ground and allow us to

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build a better world for all of us all

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right well we should be hearing from the

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capcom commit calling up to

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the crew onboard the station to start us

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off in just a second now so we'll we'll

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stand by for that

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jsc pao this is mission control houston

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please call station for a voice check

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this is brandy dean from johnson space

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center public affairs office how do you

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and this is the international space

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station we have you loud and clear

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great it is fantastic to be talking to

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you thank you so much for joining this

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morning and uh just so you know i'm also

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here with kirk shireman so we're both

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excited to be kicking off the year of

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education in space with you guys

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we have a lot of people on facebook live

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getting ready to send us in some

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questions and we'll be taking those uh

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and sending them up to you

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but first i thought i'd give kirk a

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chance to say hi

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yeah good afternoon it's great to see

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you on board the iss today how are you

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how you doing kirk we are doing great

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it's uh you know really an honor and a

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privilege to be up here working on the

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science done

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excellent well uh thank you for being

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part of this you know joe uh and paulo

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part of the the emphasis this year on

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education is really because we have the

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expanded usos crew um and uh and

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certainly because of your skills and and

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uh your unique skills and that fantastic

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laboratory that you have up there so

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opportunity this year and

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yes kirk

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as you know because you you manage it uh

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this laboratory is an incredible

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place outside the earth for the earth

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and here we can do a lot of science a

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lot of technology but a lot of education

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okay we will jump right into the

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questions we've got one that's

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appropriate for the year of education

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kickoff it's coming from pre-service

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teachers and faculty at the university

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of houston downtown and they want to

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as teachers and scientists how can

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classroom teachers help their students

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get a better understanding of the nature

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of science and to do real science in the

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well that's pretty cool we're working

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with the uh the pre-service teachers

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especially having those that are uh

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important things that we can do as

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educators when we're in the classroom is

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uh important to the students but also

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tangible and so i'm hoping that the work

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these pre-service teachers coming up

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with great ideas of things they might

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want to use to inspire their students

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coming up with those ideas sharing those

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with us and then letting us help you

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we have this here where we have some

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candies inside of a little plastic kind

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of a globe and there's lots of amazing

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with something as simple as this so

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of the space station and your great

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ideas to help inspire those students

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jamil cream and they want to know how

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frequently you observe auroras and are

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the horizon but this mission here is

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just incredible we had some incredible

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auroras lighting up the whole sky sky at

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night so from my point of view they're a

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unpredictable in fact they are a direct

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function of the activity of the sun and

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we saw them we saw many many many of

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them and even today a little bit fainter

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view so you know i'm a kid from socal

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down there so it is uh you know one of

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actually see the auroras so that was

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sweden uh uh i had the occasion to be

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completely different feeling we are

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spinning so fast and the aurora is

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moving so fast it changes completely and

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it gives me a sense of of something that

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is really active and a little bit less

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peaceful to be to be honest

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i can only imagine one of one of the

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things i think is interesting in uh in

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that is uh in the past i know some of uh

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your crewmates have taken videos of this

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and they put it to music and that's one

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of the things i i find fascinating is is

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it's really uh as you pointed out paulo

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it's a

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phenomena

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caused by the sun which you have to see

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in the darkness

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and yet people see art in that

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in that form as well so it really kind

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absolutely kirk it's uh it's they're

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incredible the colors the shape the

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forms the way they go around the earth

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the way they spike up from earth it's

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absolutely incredible we took

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a time lapses so we put a camera on on a

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window and then we let it take a picture

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every second and we can combine in this

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way thousand pictures and in in a minute

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or in a couple of minutes show what the

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camera captures in in about 15 minutes

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and it's absolutely astonishing it's

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and if i can just uh add one more thing

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from this conversation is that for those

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teachers that are out there and those

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students that are out there you know we

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talk about art and a lot of times we

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think art is separate from these

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sciences and really they're not so for

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those people that you know feel like

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they're more on the artistic side you

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know don't be afraid of the sciences

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because it is an art and so it's neat

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when you can bring those two things

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um i don't know that it would quite

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count as art but it looks like y'all did

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an experiment recently that i think is

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going to capture a lot of school student

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attention and sent down some some video

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maybe over the weekend but we've got a

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question about how does a fidget spinner

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work in space so that that may be

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so great question and i'm glad we just

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we picked one up and

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a video just went out on friday so you

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can

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see the space spinner that is out there

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and what's really neat is of course is

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we're in this micro gravity environment

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you can get a really cool spin going and

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you can release it so you can see it'll

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pretty much stay there

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and then if paulo imparts any little bit

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of force on it it will follow the vector

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of the force that he's put on that so

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you can do all kinds of things

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and this is just a good example of what

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the teachers can ask us to do to help

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explain some of the concepts that

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they're going to teach in the classroom

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and the the little spinner it's fun and

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we have a good time with it and if you

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haven't seen the video yet it's pretty

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uh well kind of reversing it a little

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bit we have a teacher joe that wants to

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know what things you learned as a

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teacher that prepared you for being

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well i think being a school teacher is

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it's an awesome job but it prepares you

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very well

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maybe more than any other profession for

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being an astronaut as all of you

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teachers know you go when you start the

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day and you have a plan in place you

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think you know what you're going to do

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every minute up here we start the day

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and we have a plan in place so it's very

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similar but then as soon as those kids

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walk in the door and they do something

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or ask a question there goes your plan

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and so you have to be very flexible you

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have to be able to think on your feet

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and up here it's the same way where we

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think we have a plan and if it doesn't

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go quite right you have to learn how to

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fix it you have to work as a team and so

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you know being a teacher is

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i think i can say it might be harder

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than this job because we have all of

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mission control helping us and you

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teachers are in your classroom by

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yourselves and now you've got to fix the

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problem so

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i think being a teacher really prepared

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emma i am an engineer

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and i just look at joe and i admire his

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patients because he has

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an enormous amount of patience with

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everything that happens and the

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capability of cope with almost anything

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and that's uh i think that comes from

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the dealing every day with the situation

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with student with people that of course

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each one of them pushes you in every

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direction and if you're not flexible and

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patient you're not going anywhere

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joe

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and paula it seems like one of the one

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of the traits too is to

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is to see to see some phenomena not

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through your own eyes but through the

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eyes of a student and and then figure

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out how to uh explain it so that they

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understand it from from their

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perspective

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and and again i think that ties into

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your your life every day right the rest

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of the world is down here on the planet

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when you're doing an experiment even

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with the the principal investigator you

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have to explain what it means from from

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their perspective as opposed from from

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your own and

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yeah it's really interesting uh you know

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as a teacher

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you know i think i was a terrible math

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teacher for quite a few years because

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you know math came easy to me as a you

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know as a kid i liked math

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and you know it was pretty easy so i

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would i taught the kids the way i

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learned in the way i thought was simple

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to learn and it didn't work well for

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everybody so

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you really do have to look at who you're

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talking to

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and saying it five times over again

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doesn't make it any clearer so we do

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have to find different ways to express

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what we're trying to say and how to get

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that uh concept across

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one other thing about that too it seems

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like uh

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uh at least for me as a student the

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applicability in other words what so

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you're learning something you're

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learning math or you're learning for me

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it was it was uh algebra

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uh you know what's the point what what

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are we doing this for and and again i

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think the space station and you guys up

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there can really help say hey this this

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is why you're learning it this is why

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it's important it really does be able to

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describe the

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the motion of things or

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or the biological phenomena all these

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things apply and here's why so it's

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really the application of the knowledge

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yeah kirk that's exactly right and

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that's why we want to get the teachers

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involved so they can tell us what they

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need and we are happy to to help them do

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that and being astronauts we are

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we are students we spend years in

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training to get up here and it's funny

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that you say that where sometimes we're

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taught things and we want to step back

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and say okay now why do i need to know

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this so even as adults i think it's

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all right well given the students a

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little bit of taste of what it's like in

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space we have a few questions uh on kind

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of space flight 101 and uh the mullen

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fee school wants to know what type of

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well i wish we would have a

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beautiful kitchen here where we can

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prepare all sorts of things i crave from

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a from a pizza actually i like to have a

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pizza kirk can we have a pizza up here

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please but

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but the truth is that it's very very

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difficult to cook and to handle fluids

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especially hot fluids in in this kind of

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environment i would not say impossible

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but very very difficult and and

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therefore the food that we have is

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something that can be managed a little

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bit like the the food that uh we use in

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the in the military those uh a meal

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ready to eat food already prepared all

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right tv what is it called

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a tv dinner something like that so we

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have uh thermo stabilized food food we

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have

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um

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regrettable food we have irradiated food

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mostly meat and uh

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and what else whatever juices and coffee

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but everything is contained in a bag so

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it's uh either you have to cut the bag

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open to get to it sometimes you suck out

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of the bag and it's uh it's a little bit

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different we're looking forward to that

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pizza it's a picnic for uh six months uh

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essentially uh but at the end we have

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enough variety here so each one of us

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can pick his own preferred food and

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and it's actually pretty good to tell

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you the truth at the end i thought it

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would be worse but it's actually not bad

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and i would say tortillas are our

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friends up here we don't have a lot of

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bread because of the crumbs that they

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they create but you'd be surprised at

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what you can put on a tortilla so try

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that at

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home you've been playing with your food

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a little bit if the i think that the

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ball of candy in the background is any

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yeah we're astronauts and we're

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professionals but we're big kids as well

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and we like to have fun

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speaking of fun and we play with food

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sorry about that speaking of fun

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hillary uh

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or her sixth grade students want to know

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how gravity works differently in space

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well

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there is gravity here in space but

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because we are falling falling down

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towards the earth and nothing is

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stopping us so the spacecraft is falling

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we are falling i am falling everybody is

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falling the result is that essentially

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you don't feel the effect of gravity and

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and you can do a lot of things it's it's

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actually incredible what happens when

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you go up here in space because you come

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up here like a terrestrial person so

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with gravity in your mind and you start

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trying to walk but how can you walk in

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these conditions so so you you have to

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to learn to walk with your hands and

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then when you go somewhere and you want

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to stay stable you cannot use your hands

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because otherwise you cannot work so you

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have to use your feet and and so it's

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kind of strange you walk with your hands

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and stay still with your feet and not

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only that you tend to walk uh

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with your feet towards what we call the

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floor but there is no floor and you have

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to learn to move and to adapt and put

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yourself in a way that you can actually

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work effectively efficiently so you have

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to become spiderman superman you have to

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become an extraterrestrial person and

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it's actually fun it's one of the

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discovery of space it takes few weeks i

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have to say but once you manage this

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yeah paula one of the things i find

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really interesting too uh and just

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watching you guys here in this this

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event is uh you know this

551
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one of newton's laws when you put

552
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something in a body in motion will tend

553
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to stay in motion and

554
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you know we know that from school but

555
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you guys even just holding that

556
00:21:29,669 --> 00:21:27,520
microphone and trying to leave the

557
00:21:31,510 --> 00:21:29,679
microphone sitting in one place you know

558
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any little tiny motion you leave on that

559
00:21:35,590 --> 00:21:34,080
microphone before you let go it stays

560
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and just drifts off

561
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drifts off and like the globe a minute

562
00:21:42,230 --> 00:21:40,559
ago drifted off into another module so

563
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all these really fundamental laws of

564
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physics you guys

565
00:21:51,430 --> 00:21:49,590
yeah and there are unintended

566
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consequences because you learn very

567
00:21:56,070 --> 00:21:53,919
quickly that you just push yourself and

568
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you're going where you want to go the

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fact that you forget that you have to

570
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stop and so

571
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at the beginning you don't realize that

572
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and when you hit the wall uh pretty fast

573
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and you start hurting yourself you

574
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figure out that ah newton laws it's very

575
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important here you better pay attention

576
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all right we're getting close to the end

577
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of our time but one other question that

578
00:22:21,510 --> 00:22:20,159
did come in that we wanted to ask is

579
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anything you can tell us about your

580
00:22:29,669 --> 00:22:23,039
favorite teachers and subjects when you

581
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well i um you know i did like the

582
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sciences so that was always fun

583
00:22:40,950 --> 00:22:38,480
chemistry physics but my favorite class

584
00:22:41,750 --> 00:22:40,960
was actually my metal shop class in high

585
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school

586
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and so we could take electives and so i

587
00:22:48,789 --> 00:22:46,320
actually took four years of metal shop

588
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where we learned how to weld uh worked

589
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on a lathe we were

590
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making molds we were you know just you

591
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name it we got to do it and to do that

592
00:23:01,029 --> 00:22:58,799
as a high school student it was great it

593
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prepared me for the different jobs that

594
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i've had

595
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and as a teacher i reflect back on that

596
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and i wonder how mr walters handled 30

597
00:23:14,230 --> 00:23:11,520
high school kids with high-powered tools

598
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with you know welding flames and things

599
00:23:16,630 --> 00:23:15,600
like that and

600
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you know he gave us a lot of

601
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responsibility as students and

602
00:23:24,070 --> 00:23:21,280
we love that and we ran with it so it

603
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was a it was great as a student and as a

604
00:23:27,590 --> 00:23:26,080
teacher it was really neat to see

605
00:23:32,870 --> 00:23:27,600
to look back and see how he managed the

606
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and do you think you had any teachers

607
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i think

608
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mr walters would have been a great

609
00:23:48,149 --> 00:23:45,679
astronaut when you look at what we do up

610
00:23:51,110 --> 00:23:48,159
here every day you know a lot of it is

611
00:23:52,470 --> 00:23:51,120
doing repairs and it takes someone who

612
00:23:54,310 --> 00:23:52,480
can you know who can work with their

613
00:23:57,190 --> 00:23:54,320
hands who can understand a problem and

614
00:23:58,390 --> 00:23:57,200
find a way to to fix it but he might

615
00:24:00,390 --> 00:23:58,400
have been too good where he might have

616
00:24:01,750 --> 00:24:00,400
redone the whole space station so it's

617
00:24:04,149 --> 00:24:01,760
probably better that we kept them on

618
00:24:05,350 --> 00:24:04,159
earth

619
00:24:07,350 --> 00:24:05,360
good advice

620
00:24:08,630 --> 00:24:07,360
well last thing any uh anything you want

621
00:24:15,750 --> 00:24:08,640
to say or any advice you have for the

622
00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:17,830
well if if you're watching we want to

623
00:24:21,990 --> 00:24:19,760
thank you for coming on board

624
00:24:24,710 --> 00:24:22,000
and we hope that we can share our

625
00:24:27,430 --> 00:24:24,720
experience and and show you how science

626
00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:27,440
is real how science is fun

627
00:24:32,230 --> 00:24:29,760
and i would just tell any student out

628
00:24:34,470 --> 00:24:32,240
there you know find that subject those

629
00:24:36,549 --> 00:24:34,480
subjects that you really love and run

630
00:24:38,070 --> 00:24:36,559
with them whether it's science or not

631
00:24:39,830 --> 00:24:38,080
you know all of us that are up here we

632
00:24:42,630 --> 00:24:39,840
have different backgrounds but we all

633
00:24:44,630 --> 00:24:42,640
really enjoyed our careers before we got

634
00:24:47,990 --> 00:24:44,640
here and when you find something that

635
00:24:51,510 --> 00:24:48,000
you love it's it's more enjoyable to do

636
00:24:52,950 --> 00:24:51,520
it doesn't actually seem like work

637
00:24:54,549 --> 00:24:52,960
you get paid

638
00:24:56,630 --> 00:24:54,559
and you know you may not always be the

639
00:24:58,710 --> 00:24:56,640
smartest person out there like someone

640
00:25:00,390 --> 00:24:58,720
has told me many times but you can

641
00:25:02,950 --> 00:25:00,400
always be the one that works the hardest

642
00:25:06,310 --> 00:25:02,960
so don't be afraid to work hard and try

643
00:25:11,990 --> 00:25:09,269
i would i would tell kids that you know

644
00:25:13,990 --> 00:25:12,000
math science research these are not

645
00:25:16,789 --> 00:25:14,000
things for crazy people well some of the

646
00:25:20,470 --> 00:25:16,799
people are crazy but but not people out

647
00:25:23,190 --> 00:25:20,480
of the world we are not you know

648
00:25:25,669 --> 00:25:23,200
nobel prize winner or geniuses or

649
00:25:28,390 --> 00:25:25,679
anything we're just regular people that

650
00:25:30,470 --> 00:25:28,400
that have had the strength to

651
00:25:33,190 --> 00:25:30,480
to have a dream and pursue it and

652
00:25:35,350 --> 00:25:33,200
eventually be up here and if i made it

653
00:25:37,909 --> 00:25:35,360
if joe made it it means it's possible

654
00:25:38,870 --> 00:25:37,919
everybody can do it so just just have a

655
00:25:43,830 --> 00:25:38,880
dream

656
00:25:45,990 --> 00:25:43,840
just go at it because you can actually

657
00:25:47,430 --> 00:25:46,000
do it

658
00:25:48,789 --> 00:25:47,440
all right well thank you so much for

659
00:25:50,470 --> 00:25:48,799
sharing your dream with us we look

660
00:25:52,630 --> 00:25:50,480
forward to seeing a lot more as we go

661
00:25:55,110 --> 00:25:52,640
through this great year of education on

662
00:25:59,190 --> 00:25:55,120
the station thank you so much yeah thank

663
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:04,310
thanks for joining us

664
00:26:15,909 --> 00:26:06,470
station this is houston acr that

665
00:26:34,230 --> 00:26:18,789
station we are now resuming operational

666
00:26:37,669 --> 00:26:36,390
it's it's without borders

667
00:26:39,830 --> 00:26:37,679
and certainly what we're trying to do on

668
00:26:42,149 --> 00:26:39,840
international space station is is like

669
00:26:44,310 --> 00:26:42,159
that while we were talking to these guys

670
00:26:47,110 --> 00:26:44,320
they actually orbited about one-third of

671
00:26:49,110 --> 00:26:47,120
the planet so uh so uh

672
00:26:51,430 --> 00:26:49,120
anyway it's just amazing to me

673
00:26:53,430 --> 00:26:51,440
that uh that they're seeing a third of

674
00:26:56,070 --> 00:26:53,440
the planet in these few minutes that we

675
00:26:57,510 --> 00:26:56,080
were we were talking to them and and

676
00:26:59,990 --> 00:26:57,520
they could impact

677
00:27:01,909 --> 00:27:00,000
a third of the planet or more absolutely

678
00:27:03,269 --> 00:27:01,919
yeah it's amazing and amazing that they

679
00:27:05,269 --> 00:27:03,279
are able to take some time out for this

680
00:27:07,590 --> 00:27:05,279
knowing what all the well what else

681
00:27:09,190 --> 00:27:07,600
they've got going on sure you know joe's

682
00:27:10,789 --> 00:27:09,200
getting ready for a spacewalk that's

683
00:27:13,190 --> 00:27:10,799
right friday we're going to go outside

684
00:27:14,789 --> 00:27:13,200
and uh and do some more work outside

685
00:27:16,789 --> 00:27:14,799
it'll be the third of our

686
00:27:19,029 --> 00:27:16,799
of our spaceworks uh the last one really

687
00:27:21,750 --> 00:27:19,039
that we have planned until uh until next

688
00:27:23,669 --> 00:27:21,760
year so we're looking forward to uh to

689
00:27:25,909 --> 00:27:23,679
to joe acaba and uh

690
00:27:27,029 --> 00:27:25,919
and randy bresnik going outside uh on

691
00:27:28,230 --> 00:27:27,039
friday

692
00:27:29,510 --> 00:27:28,240
and i know you've also probably got a

693
00:27:31,590 --> 00:27:29,520
lot of work to get back to but one more

694
00:27:32,870 --> 00:27:31,600
question for you um these guys get asked

695
00:27:34,870 --> 00:27:32,880
all the time you know how they became an

696
00:27:36,389 --> 00:27:34,880
astronaut but how how did you become a

697
00:27:38,070 --> 00:27:36,399
space station program manager was that

698
00:27:39,990 --> 00:27:38,080
something that you had any idea about

699
00:27:41,750 --> 00:27:40,000
when you were young yes uh absolutely

700
00:27:44,950 --> 00:27:41,760
not of course when i was a kid i was

701
00:27:47,269 --> 00:27:44,960
born i was born in 1962. so uh people

702
00:27:49,269 --> 00:27:47,279
were flying in space by then

703
00:27:51,430 --> 00:27:49,279
as a little kid i got to see

704
00:27:53,909 --> 00:27:51,440
the first steps on the on the moon which

705
00:27:55,510 --> 00:27:53,919
was really exciting although

706
00:27:58,070 --> 00:27:55,520
you know it wasn't that that said hey i

707
00:28:00,149 --> 00:27:58,080
need to go work for nasa my in my case i

708
00:28:02,710 --> 00:28:00,159
was fascinated by airplanes i loved

709
00:28:04,310 --> 00:28:02,720
airplanes from a small as a small child

710
00:28:07,350 --> 00:28:04,320
even i can remember five years old

711
00:28:09,110 --> 00:28:07,360
building little balsa wood airplanes and

712
00:28:11,110 --> 00:28:09,120
i wanted to build and fly airplanes

713
00:28:12,549 --> 00:28:11,120
that's what i wanted to do and so i went

714
00:28:14,870 --> 00:28:12,559
to school to be an engineer so i could

715
00:28:16,149 --> 00:28:14,880
build and fly airplanes

716
00:28:17,590 --> 00:28:16,159
and i had the opportunity to go work on

717
00:28:19,669 --> 00:28:17,600
the space shuttle and so you know what

718
00:28:21,350 --> 00:28:19,679
better airplane than one that flies in

719
00:28:23,190 --> 00:28:21,360
space and on the ground and then from

720
00:28:25,269 --> 00:28:23,200
the space shuttle i came to the space

721
00:28:27,990 --> 00:28:25,279
station so it just one thing led to

722
00:28:30,950 --> 00:28:28,000
another but it's just this i would say

723
00:28:33,269 --> 00:28:30,960
lifelong interest in flying in in

724
00:28:35,430 --> 00:28:33,279
machines that that took humans faster

725
00:28:37,909 --> 00:28:35,440
and higher than they've ever gone before

726
00:28:40,470 --> 00:28:37,919
uh it was my passion it was my interest

727
00:28:42,149 --> 00:28:40,480
and i'm i'm like like joe and paulo said

728
00:28:43,110 --> 00:28:42,159
i guess it was really paulo said hey

729
00:28:45,510 --> 00:28:43,120
just find something that you're

730
00:28:47,750 --> 00:28:45,520
passionate about and and uh and wake up

731
00:28:50,630 --> 00:28:47,760
every day and pursue that passion and

732
00:28:51,909 --> 00:28:50,640
and really anything is possible yeah as

733
00:28:53,590 --> 00:28:51,919
it's clear just watching you and

734
00:28:55,110 --> 00:28:53,600
watching these guys

735
00:28:56,310 --> 00:28:55,120
all right well we are going to wrap up

736
00:28:59,029 --> 00:28:56,320
now but of course you're going to want

737
00:29:00,789 --> 00:28:59,039
to keep up as the we go out as we go on

738
00:29:02,549 --> 00:29:00,799
with this year of education on station a

739
00:29:04,149 --> 00:29:02,559
few ways that you can do that is by

740
00:29:07,029 --> 00:29:04,159
following us on facebook you can look

741
00:29:09,029 --> 00:29:07,039
for nasa jsc education and then on

742
00:29:10,710 --> 00:29:09,039
twitter right now with the with the crew

743
00:29:12,710 --> 00:29:10,720
we've got on board several of them are

744
00:29:14,549 --> 00:29:12,720
on twitter you can look for them at

745
00:29:17,430 --> 00:29:14,559
astro acaba and that's joe acaba's

746
00:29:19,110 --> 00:29:17,440
account or astro underscore paulo for

747
00:29:21,190 --> 00:29:19,120
palo nespoli

748
00:29:23,269 --> 00:29:21,200
an astro underscore ricky who will be

749
00:29:24,549 --> 00:29:23,279
coming up to join with join the space

750
00:29:27,669 --> 00:29:24,559
station crew

751
00:29:28,710 --> 00:29:27,679
next year and again with a spacewalk

752
00:29:32,310 --> 00:29:28,720
coming up you're going to want to tune

753
00:29:33,909 --> 00:29:32,320
back into nasa tv for that we'll be uh

754
00:29:37,350 --> 00:29:33,919
beginning that spacewalk probably around

755
00:29:39,149 --> 00:29:37,360
805 a.m eastern time on friday

756
00:29:40,950 --> 00:29:39,159
and you can watch that live on nasa

757
00:29:41,909 --> 00:29:40,960
tv.gov

758
00:29:42,950 --> 00:29:41,919
live

759
00:29:44,310 --> 00:29:42,960
and

760
00:29:45,830 --> 00:29:44,320
as always you can keep up with what's

761
00:29:47,990 --> 00:29:45,840
going on at the space station at