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Welcome to NASA's Johnson Space Center

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where we're joined today by astronaut

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Jessica Muir who just got her first

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flight assignment she'll be launching in

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September and we're joined from space by

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astronaut Christina Koch who had just

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found out officially that her mission is

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gonna be extended and she'll be staying

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in space until February congratulations

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to you both we're so excited for you and

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we just want to check in and see kind of

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how how that feels so let's jump right

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in let's start with Christina. Christina,

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I know you've known that this extension

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was a possibility for awhile but now

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that you officially have the word that

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you're gonna be staying in space for

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almost a year,

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how does that feel? Yes, hi Brandi. Hi

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Jessica. It's great to be with you

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welcome onboard the space station and

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Jessica, congratulations on your flight

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assignment. I'm so happy for you. To get

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to your question Brandi, it feels awesome

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I have known that this was a possibility

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for a long time and it's truly a dream

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come true to know that I can continue to

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work on the program that I've valued so

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highly my whole life, to be able to

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contribute to that, to give my best every

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day to that for as long as possible is a

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true honor and a dream come true all right.

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And Jessica, I know you've been training

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for years for this and it's very

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exciting but do you have time to

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celebrate for your mission or are you

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too busy training? I tried to celebrate

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it a little bit but you're right we've

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been working really hard the whole time

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since we were selected back as astronaut

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candidates in 2013 and last year when

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I started training for a space station

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flight and over in Russia as well so

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they keep us incredibly busy especially

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right now going back and forth between

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training trips in Russia and here

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learning how to be the copilot of the

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Soyuz, which I'll be doing and then

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coming back here and learning all about

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all the different space station

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systems, all the science and

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everything that will be doing onboard.

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Definitely a lot of work but trying to