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Station this is Houston are you ready for the event?

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Houston this is station. I'm ready.

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Hi I'm Christina Koch this is Ask
NASA where we answer your questions

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even in space

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what personal space achievement are you
most proud of?

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well having been here for

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over 300 days I have to say there are a
lot of things I've had the opportunity

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and privilege to do that have been
something to feel proud of for me but

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most of all I would say it's giving back
and contributing to this program that

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I've held in such high regard my entire
life giving back to the teams that have

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made it possible for me to be here
training teams engineering teams

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real-time operations teams on the ground
and of course my team up here my crew mates.

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if you could pick where in space would

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you go now
station again. Moon. Mars?

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I'd have to say

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that I would go to Mars and the reason I
say that is because I think going deeper

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into space and answering some of the
most fundamental questions that we have

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is one of the most important things we
can do at NASA I think that going back

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to the moon first to prove out the
technologies needed for that deeper

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space mission is really important and
that's why I'm so excited that's what's

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on the horizon for us in the 2020s with
the Artemis mission

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after nearly a year in space are you ready to come home or
would you stay longer?

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I would say it's a

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little bit of both I am ready to come
home and see my friends and loved ones

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but I have to say if they could visit
here I'd probably stay forever I

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absolutely love my job here I love the
ability to contribute and I love the

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work and I love the people

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do you have a
favorite photo you've taken since you've

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been on station?

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well I'd have to say
that photography is one of my favorite things and

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is my favorite thing to use in my

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free time to capture the earth and also
the universe around the space station

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if I had to pick just one picture I would
say it was a picture that I took of the

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launch of Jessica Meir, Oleg Skripochka 
and Ali Almansoori

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and it was a picture of them actually in the rocket
where the rocket almost looked like a

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star and you could see a halo around it
of the actual second stage as it started

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and firing and it was just such a symbol
to me of achieving your dream it was a

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beautiful thing that you could never see
anywhere else other than here and it

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just sort of put a punctuation mark on
the idea of a rocket launch and how

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awesome of a thing that is to be a part
of and to be able to actually witness

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with your own eyes

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what a great question
something that we call expeditionary

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skills behaviors and what that means is
it's a set of skills that is important

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for being productive and doing your best
in a close environment that is not

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something you're accustomed to on the
earth such as the space station

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leadership followership group living
team care self care communication things

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that allow you and your crewmates to
basically work at your best every single

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day and still get the mission done

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there is so much out-of-this-world science

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going on up here it's really exciting if
you can imagine anything that happens to

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just be better served as a scientific
question in microgravity than it does on

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the earth we can do that up here so that
covers all kinds of realms of science

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including biology biotechnology physical
science Earth and space science

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technology demonstrations and even human
research on our own bodies

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one of the most exciting pieces of science that
I've had the opportunity to be involved

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in is directed towards developing
medicines for fighting some of the

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diseases that we all face

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you know I think that's a question that we're all

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looking to answer right now there's so
many different factors

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go into that question and the real
answer is I think we're not necessarily

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limited fundamentally by any one thing
it's really just a question of where can

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our technology and our innovation take
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one of the reasons I'm so happy that

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I've had the opportunity to do an
extended mission is that that

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contributes to that understanding

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definitely the best thing is that you

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get a chance to contribute to the
coolest work being done in my opinion by

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all of humanity I have held this you
know human spaceflight in such high

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regard my entire life and so to get the
opportunity to actually contribute to it

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day in and day out is by far the best
part about being up here now second I

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would say is definitely being able to
float

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microgravity sure makes it fun to

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get around here on the space station we
have to work in every orientation we

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have stowage on the ceiling we have
science experiments on the ceiling and

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so it's pretty fun to be able to float
around to flip around just to get around