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i'm very happy to talk with you and i

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just want to tell you what i hope you

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know and feel

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our nation our our planet is so thankful

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to you

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for your years of dedicated service

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certainly to our country and to your

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dedication to such excellence and

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welcome home welcome home how are you

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doing

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kind words and it definitely

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felt like a privilege to get the

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opportunity to be up in space for that

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long so

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thanks to the country um for making that

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a possibility

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tell me you know i i am the proud head

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of our nation space council and so i am

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um particularly excited

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to speak with you and and and so soon

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after your return after

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355 days in space and i was wondering if

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you can just talk with me a little bit

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about

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what this trip meant in terms of not

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only what it meant for you personally in

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terms of the experience

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but

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you were there in search of discovery in

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search of science in search of

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innovation

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and and i'm hoping you might be able to

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to talk a little bit about

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how that's going to benefit folks on

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earth

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oh absolutely i can

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tell you that there was a

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one experiment called celestial immunity

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that dealt with

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cells donated by young people as well as

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older folks that

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we were able to inoculate and see how

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the immune systems react we're hoping

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that

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space station helps us better understand

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the immune system because of that we've

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got

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potential to learn about uh better

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understand combustion because

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because it behaves differently in space

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and that potentially will help us have

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systems on the ground that that work

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providing or using energy but with less

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pollution

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certainly being in space i hope

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uh

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inspires a lot of young people

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to want to go ahead and continue their

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studies because that's so essential to

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being able to participate in our

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nation's post space program in so many

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ways

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can you talk a bit about the artemis and

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moon mission and how how folks should

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think about

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what it is but also the potential it has

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created

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absolutely i i really am looking forward

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to a time when we've got

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continuous human presence

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on another planetary object we've been

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on the moon but we've never stayed we've

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been in low earth orbit for more than 20

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years so we know how to stay in space we

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do not yet know how to use the resources

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of another planetary object like the

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moon and doing that going back to the

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moon it's going to be a huge leap for

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humanity and in the process

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it'll give us a tremendous amount of

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knowledge about how to survive on mars

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and the average length of time we

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think it could take to get from earth

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to mars could be as much as six months

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and so your record-breaking

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in space

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really puts us on the path of

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understanding what travel to mars

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would require of a human being huh

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absolutely and i think the flight to

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mars and back i suspect will be even

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longer than that so my hope is that the

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record that the team achieved with my

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flight

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is something that gets broken

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pretty quickly as we get better and

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better understanding of how to keep a

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human being healthy and able to function

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when they get someplace else and

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honestly some of my flight as soon as i

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landed in kazakhstan within the first

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hour of being there i was doing some

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tests

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to see what type of capabilities i had

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before getting any medical attention

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before taking any medicine so we're

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trying to understand what we can expect

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of people because when they get to mars

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they're not going to have a medical

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well i've read about your career and you

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have been quite dedicated to our country

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and and to all of this work and thank

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you for that and and please enjoy a a

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peaceful a restful

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return to earth and um and please thank

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your family for me for our country

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on behalf of the president um on behalf

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of all of us for for the work and the

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sacrifices they have also made

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um but we couldn't be more proud and so

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welcome home and thank you again

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thank you very very much

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take care bye-bye