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station this is houston are you ready

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houston this is station i'm ready for

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the event

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u.s embassy in kiev ukraine this is

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mission control houston please call

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ivanovic from the u.s embassy in keys

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madam ambassador i hear you loud and

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clear and to you and to the students of

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america house welcome to the

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well i i think that um you can see we've

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got a really excited audience here um in

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in kiev there's a bunch of people

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americans ukrainians and everybody's

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thrilled to be talking to you tonight so

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we've collected questions from all over

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ukraine from people eager to hear about

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your adventures in outer space and any

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advice you have for aspiring scientists

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and engineers and i can tell you from

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our pre-talk there are a bunch of them

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here of all ages not just

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not just youth i think there are others

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as well so our first question comes from

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questia in kiev he asks what kind of

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training did you do to become an

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well we select astronauts with a bunch

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of varied backgrounds we've got

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astrophysicists engineers medical

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doctors test pilots we've got the whole

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gamut i've got joe acaba here he's a

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teacher an educator and so we all come

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with all the different backgrounds but

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we get the similar astronaut training

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where we have to learn about the systems

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of for example the space station the

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science on the space station how the

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toilet works

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we have to learn about how to fix things

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we have to learn about the experiments

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that we do on this on the science

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equipment we have to learn how to do

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space ones we'd like to learn how to be

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able to ride the rocket uphill and ride

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the rocket downhill so there's a wide

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variety of stuff that happens when

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you're an astronaut and the neat part is

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you never know what you're going to be

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doing from day to day

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and how different the different days are

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going to be so it's a lot of different

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things but that's what makes the job so

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interesting and so challenging

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so is there um this is a question from

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alina and and reap chuck ukraine and it

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really follows on to what you just said

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she'd like to know what is the most

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the most important thing about being an

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that you get along with other people

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i mentioned that you have these very

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backgrounds and varied experiences but

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when we come up here as part of a crew

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we have to be able to work together

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and it can be busy it can be stressful

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to be long days but you got to be able

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to understand yourself relate to other

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people and figure out how to work as

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cohesively as a crew to be able to get

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the mission done so that's what we find

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and we try and really check out when we

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go ahead and hire people is what kind of

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person are they and would we want to be

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on a mission with them for a long time

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well that's really interesting because i

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bet a lot of people in this room thought

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the same thing i did which is it was not

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going to be the old interpersonal skills

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issue it was going to be something about

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science or math um which are of course

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also very important for your mission

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so both bogdan in kiev wants to know

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the future of space exploration is

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pretty darn exciting right now we've got

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you know companies that are building new

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space vehicles you know in in the u.s

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spacex company that are building crude

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capsules they're going to come up here

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to the space station here hopefully by

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uh next year uh and that'll allow

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uh nasa to finish our orion vehicle

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which will start taking us out beyond

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low earth orbit and start taking us out

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towards the moon and towards mars

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and you know that's the kind of stuff

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that we need to be doing to be able to

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continue exploring and eventually get

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no country is going to go alone to mars

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it's going to be a human effort we're

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going to do an international partnership

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just like we do with the international

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space station and that's why it's so

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important work we do here forging the

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alliances and the partnership and making

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it all work country to country that

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there's going to be an example for us

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when we go ahead and go and try and do

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that major earth you know exploration

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mission from the people that live here

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to another heavenly body like mars and

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exciting and i i just um since since you

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put that little capsule out there i just

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have to ask a follow-up question so how

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so um a leg from venezia would like to

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know if you are growing plants on the

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space station and if so why are you

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great question and we have astronaut joe

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who has been growing lettuce

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five different types of lettuce he's

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been growing here on the space station

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why are we doing that because as you can

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duration mission we're going to have a

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pretty big spaceship be able to feed the

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people while we go there

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imagine a seed it doesn't take a whole

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lot of space or a whole lot of weight

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of our food and that makes it a lot

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easier to build a spaceship to have more

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scientific stuff more propulsion or more

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sustainability not only end route to

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another planet but maybe once we get

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uh so uh our a former colleague of ours

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wondering what the solar eclipse back in

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august what did that look like from your

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vantage point the international space

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sea of normally uh white clouds or the

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blue of the ocean and there's usually a

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shadow of the of the moon uh onto the

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surface and i mean inside that circle i

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minute of your life and everyone you've

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that a lot more people can see it and be

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so here's here's a going from the really

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yuya and ivana frankiesk would like to

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station you've already been there four

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kazakhstan uh that day and then sergey

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because there's radiation there's lack

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of gravity which causes our bodies to

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change and so the part of the

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experimentation is us ourselves so when

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be getting back rehabilitating our

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reconditioning ourselves we're doing

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medic get all the medical tests done on

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us then we'll be getting debriefs

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explaining everybody what we learned

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what we saw helping train the next set

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of astronauts that'll be coming up here

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and taking care of this magnificent

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space station and then the thing i look

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forward to the most is uh spending time

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with my wife and kids and uh it's been a

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long time training and time up here

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apart and so getting some good family

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time is what i'll look forward to the

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that's great so i have a question for

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you

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what surprised me the most was something

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i had a feeling for after my first

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flight

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um but i was only up here 11 days and it

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was such a whirlwind

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um but being up here now you know three

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months

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it amazes me how the human body can

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adapt to this environment so quickly you

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know just like

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you know people adapt to swimming

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underwater or diving and that type of

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neutral buoyancy

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i'm just amazed that we can be working

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you know up on this surface and it seems

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perfectly normal

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that this is straight ahead and that's

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the ceiling and that's the floor but

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then one of our buddies could be over

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here working on this surface

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and that's you know normal for him and

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we see guys floating by and flying by

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in different attitudes and it seems

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perfectly normal you just you adapt to

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it so quickly

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it really only takes the human body you

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know a couple days to where our minds

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know exactly where to if i want to go

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over this way i know where to push i'll

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just send me over and if i need to go

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back i just go in the right spot and i

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push back

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and we can control our rotations and our

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spinning and everything

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and it just

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it is so natural bodies are made for it

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to be able to go ahead and adapt to this

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environment and so in my opinion

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the

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human body is special and that doesn't

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take something special to be an

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astronaut any one of you could be up

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well i i think that that's a an amazing

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answer both the visuals and and uh and

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your words that any one of us could be

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an astronaut and so i actually did want

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to ask you do you have a special message

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or special advice for aspiring

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certainly the thing that i've seen

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from the people that i know that have

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become astronauts

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is that

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even before they came astronauts they

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loved what they did they were passionate

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about

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a lot most of them you know we all want

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to learn new things learn something new

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every day you know we all studied hard

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in school found a field that we were

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interested in whether it's geology for

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me i was a my degree was in mathematics

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um

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or and became a test pilot uh other

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people it is you know hard sciences um

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and and trying to figure things out and

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learning more things always being

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thirsty for knowledge is a trait that

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that you know

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all the astronauts and cosmonauts that i

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know have and that's what helps us in

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our job to be able to be good scientists

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up here

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good crew members good engineers and

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figure problems out

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make experiments work and ultimately

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take all these myriad of different

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things that we do and make it all work

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into the getting the mission done and

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sustaining our presence here in low

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so one of um we we kind of pulled the

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room to ask other questions that people

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might have on their minds one question

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was how do you feel mentally up there

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um is it is it a challenge being up

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um

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we have a funny thing you know when you

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forget something or something like that

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we call the space stupids

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fortunately it at least in my experience

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it hasn't happened uh that much i don't

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we do mental acuity tests and i'm always

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curious to see if i've changed at all

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but you get used to working up here and

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there's always different things going on

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so you stay really agile and

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i don't think you know at least and i've

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observed at any of my crew members and

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any cognitive or mental changes uh

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certainly you get used to working you

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know the long days and and the hours and

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you really need downtime at the end of

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the day to be able to you know whether

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it's you know converse with other people

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on email call your friends and family or

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just relax and watch a tv show or a

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movie to give your brain a break from

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the high paced uh

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so we have another question does space

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trash

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crash into the space station or do you

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there's not as much space trash in this

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lower earth orbit that space station's

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in because we're we're going around the

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earth at 17

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500 miles an hour so we're moving pretty

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quick

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so stuff would have to be able to you

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know uh have its own engine kind of to

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be able to stay in this low earth orbit

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because we do that we reboost our orbit

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and then stay in this little open but

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there is a lot of space trash farther

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out where all the satellites are with

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expended boosters or dead satellites and

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things like that

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eventually their orbit decays and comes

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through the low earth orbit that space

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station's at and every once in a while

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we've got people tracking this all the

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time it comes to the point where we go

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hey this might get close enough to space

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station that we want to move and we'll

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do a debris avoidance maneuver to move

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space station out of the way of that

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space trash as it comes descends through

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our through our orbit

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fortunately it's nothing like the movie

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gravity

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and doesn't happen very often but it is

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something that we're really going to

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have to think about as we continue more

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countries become space-faring nations

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and we want to go beyond low-earth orbit

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through that ring of

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you know space trash that we're

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so a couple of people were wondering

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uh

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you miss

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feeling temperature changes and weather

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changes you miss different types of

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foods that your favorite of

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but i think to a person it's it's the

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human uh interaction with the people

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that you love the most your crewmates

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are great and you really come to to love

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your crew mexico a lot of them but they

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don't make good dancing partners and you

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know typically uh you uh

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we don't hug that much you know we're

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guys um

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but uh you know to get a hug for my wife

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or my seven-year-old daughter or my 11

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year old son you know that's the stuff

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that you really miss the most and uh

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what you know i know we look forward to

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is

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getting back home

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so uh this is a variation on the theme

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and you kind of touched it what's your

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i'd have to say a carbonated beverage

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um would be just because it's not only

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the taste but the sensation and we don't

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have that because you don't want to send

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gas up into space so that that probably

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will be

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one of my first things that i enjoy

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besides maybe a

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fresh taco or juicy hamburger or a piece

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so we see that you have two flags behind

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you or to the side one is an american

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flag and one is the ukrainian flag where

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i picked that up last summer when my

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family and i were in the nipper vitrovsk

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my son was born there and so

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uh we went back there

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with our whole family enjoyed a few days

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there in november muscovsk and then also

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a little bit of time in keefe

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and so picked the flag up there and

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brought it with me

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and brought it all the way up to space

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too that's great

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i think you've got an appreciative

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audience here

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that's right so we had a question about

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how do you monitor solar activities and

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i think especially with regard to um to

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well we are fortunate that you know

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there's just six of us up here on a the

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world's you know biggest most amazing uh

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technological achievement to this day

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for humans

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but there is teams

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all over the world you know we've got

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the one in russia in moscow we've got

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one in munich for issa we got the one in

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scuba japan outside of tokyo

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um

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we've got the canadians you know have a

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mission control for the robotic arm and

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the opposite they do and then obviously

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mission control in houston and we've got

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literally an army of highly dedicated

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amazingly talented

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engineers and operations people that go

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ahead and monitor all that and they use

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the sensors that are outboard on our

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satellites um that are earth-based and

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you know a few sensors that are here on

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the space station to monitor all those

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types of things and let us know if

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there's anything that we need to do and

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if there is you know huge solar flare

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activity we do actually have places on

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space station that are a little more

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shielded that we'll go ahead and shelter

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in place at and wait out the the solar

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event

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a big thank you to all the participants

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from the u.s embassy in kiev ukraine

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station we are now resuming operational