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Good afternoon and welcome to NASA's
Kennedy Space Center.

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We're here live in Florida
as we just watched the crew

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of NASA's
Space X Crew eight mission arrive.

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The crew, you could not have picked
a more beautiful day to arrive.

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So welcome.

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This is going to be their last stop
before they head off into their spacecraft

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and launch to the International Space
Station in the early morning

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hours of March 1st.

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We're really excited to talk to the crew
soon.

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But first, I want to introduce
Jennifer Coons, associate director

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for NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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Thank you and good afternoon.

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It is another beautiful Florida day,
and we are excited

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to welcome our four crew members
to America's spaceport.

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This week's launch is NASA's
eighth operational mission

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to the International Space Station.

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Under the commercial crew program

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and the first operational crewed mission
from Kennedy this year.

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Even though we have a robust manifest here
at the spaceport,

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these missions are never routine routine
to us.

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The next few days at Kennedy Space Center,
we will be having.

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It'll be a busy time
as we prepare to launch Crew eight

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and addition to the crew's arrival today.

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Our team is assembled
to conduct the flight readiness

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review ahead of Friday's early
morning launch.

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I'd like to take a moment
to thank everyone who has been working

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so diligently behind the scenes
in the months leading up to this mission.

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Our NASA team has been working

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hand-in-hand with our international
and commercial partners,

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and we are looking forward to a successful
launch and mission.

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We're excited to welcome NASA's
Matthew Dominic, who will serve as mission

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commander, NASA's
Michael Barrett mission pilot,

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NASA's Jeanette Epps, who is a mission
specialist, and Roscosmos cosmonaut

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Alexander Rincon, who will also be serving
as a mission specialist.

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Seeing this disembark and standing on this

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runway means we are in the final days
before launch.

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And that is always a
great day for us here at KSC.

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Before we hear
from the crew, I'd like to take a moment

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and introduce you to someone
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has been instrumental in the success
of the Commercial Crew program.

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As we've returned humans
to low-Earth orbit from American soil.

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She's been here since the beginning
and serving as the deputy program

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manager of the Commercial Crew Program
here at Kennedy Space Center.

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Please join me in
welcoming Dana Hutcherson.

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Dana.

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Thank you, John.

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And thank you for everyone being here
today.

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It is a special day,
beautiful day for crew

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arrival,
the start of getting ready for our launch.

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I'm Dana Hutcherson.

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I'm the deputy program manager for NASA's
commercial crew program.

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And I couldn't be more
thrilled to be here today to see this crew

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who's
going to fly on this Space X Crew mission.

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I'm so proud of where we are today.

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As Jen said,

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this is our eighth operational mission,
but our ninth time sending astronauts

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to the International Space Station
in a Dragon capsule from American soil.

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Very proud to be a part of this program.

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NASA and SpaceX teams
have done a fantastic job of refurbishing

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this capsule and spacecraft,
getting ready for the crews to fly.

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The spacecraft is Endeavor
and it's our fleet leader for CCP.

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It'll be the first time
we're flying a capsule

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for the fifth time,
and we're super excited about that.

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The crew will stay on space station
for about six months

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performing critical research
and science experiments

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that will not only benefit us here on
Earth, but we'll look to use that effort

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to explore beyond low earth orbit.

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That exploration would only be possible
with these commercial partnerships

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with Space X and these international
relationships as well.

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Something that CCP and I assess
programs are very proud of to be a part of

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and working hand-in-hand to establish
and lay that foundational framework

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as we look to usher
in this new era of space flight.

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It's a very exciting time
to be a part of NASA

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and part of the commercial crew program,

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and I'm very excited for humanity
and I'm honored to be a part of that.

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But without further ado,
I'm going to turn it over to the crew.

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So thank you very.

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Wow. It's it's great to be at the Cape.

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I've been working at NASA's jet
for about seven years,

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but because NASA's so awesome to work for,
most people work at NASA's for decades.

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So I'm still relatively a newbie at NASA
with seven years working here.

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But over that seven years, it's
been absolutely incredible

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to watch space flight explode
here at the Cape.

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With so many different rockets
and new pads.

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In fact, I think about two visits ago
we were out here.

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We got to see a Falcon heavy launch.

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And coming from military aviation, we're
used to flying airplanes, information.

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But to see two rocket boosters coming back

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in formation to land is incredible to me.

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So coming out here to the Cape every time
I'm a kid in a candy store for me.

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actually, normally

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we get to fly the 38th out here
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and actually that's my parking spot
over there. But I would say otherwise.

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But coming out here for training is great.

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And it's just an incredible time
to be involved in spaceflight.

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Who would've thought

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five or six years ago
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of Endeavor that we get to go on?

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Who have thought five or six years ago
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or the constraint to launch
would be a launch pad? Right?

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We delayed our launch

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a few days because there's stiff
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It's not a rocket
constraint, it's a pad constraint.

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So with that, I'd like to say that
we're super excited to fly as Crew eight.

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I'm super excited to fly
with this crew and Crew seven.

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We're coming for you.

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Thank you, Matt.

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Thanks, Matt.

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I was really great to see you guys here
today.

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It's great to fly on a beautiful day.

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We're expecting the same thing
for our launch.

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I have to note that 13 years ago
and one day, 13 years

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and one day ago,
I was down here to launch on SDS.

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133 with my space brother, Eric BOE,
who's over there in the sidelines.

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We probably overuse the term bittersweet

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because at that time, the space
shuttle program was was coming to an end.

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We had a fabulous flight.

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Discovery performed flawlessly.

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And it was just an amazing thing
to bring her back 13 days later and

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to have to turn her over to her caretakers
and kind of put her to bed forever.

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She's on display right now
at the University center.

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A lot of people get to enjoy her.

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But two more flights
and our shuttle program was done.

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Most of us were hoping
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not not a big gap, but we did have a gap.

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And when we came down here
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be ported away from here, Kennedy
Space Center was very quiet.

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It was so

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empty

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compared to what we were all used to
for all this time.

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And we were all pretty sure that that KSC
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But we had no idea how much.

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I would say
KSC has come back with a vengeance.

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The fact that this spaceport is so busy,

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so vibrant is just an amazing thing.

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I know that two and a half hours from now
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In just a few days.
We're ready to take off.

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So it's just an absolute pleasure
to see Kennedy

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Space Center
being the thriving spaceport that it is.

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We're very honored to be a part of that.

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I cannot wait to get back
to that magnificent station.

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I can't wait to fly this new spaceship.

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And I can't wait to fly with this crew.

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So, again, really glad to be back here.

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And thanks for coming out.

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Dr. Ed?

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Well, it is great to see everyone here.

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I guess as I

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as we land
and I've been deep in thought about what

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all is about to happen to us, to this crew
and what we're going to go do.

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And also when we landed,
seeing all these people here, it's just

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reminded me of how many people
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and all that it takes to get this crew
from here into space.

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It's taken over a year.

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The work of training and all the trainers
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all of the hours,

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the all of the flight readiness reviews,
all the people looking out for us.

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And it is overwhelming to me
how many people have contributed to this.

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So I just want to thank everyone
who's been involved, Jennifer and Dana,

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and everyone who has helped
propel us to space on Friday.

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So I'm very grateful for this flight.

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I've trained for Soyuz,
I've trained for Boeing,

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I've trained for a lot of vehicles.

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But I am honored to fly
with this crew on the Dragon Endeavor.

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So thank you for coming.

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Thanks again.

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And thanks to everyone who
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As the rescue team said it showed us.

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Hello, everyone.

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memorabilia skulls on the top floor
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instructors goes as far away. 62.

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Almost gotta go.

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We've heard a lot of warm words
towards instructors, trainers

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and all that who prepared us
for the superstar genius.

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Come on. Going to tell them to keep.

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And I agree with all those words

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said by my crewmates to be courteous,

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just like the first some of fish
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Your skittering rover Katrina's

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just featureless dealer
in especially Mickey Possum.

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And I would like to add
that we had an intensive training course.

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We had a lot of joint simulations

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that really made us crew.

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This is just mechanisms
of neutropenia, of a

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natural starter,
and we're looking forward to our launch

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know variants of something.

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You can assure you.

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Of course, my life's a complete
but it goes outside

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and I'm I'm

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I think that everything will be okay
and I will continue your human spaceflight

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to ensure we do so and
we'll see each other again so as possible.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Thank you to the crew.

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So we're going to jump into our media
Q&A portion.

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We have a microphone
right here at the front.

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So please line up.

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If you'd like to ask the crew a question

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we ask you, please
limit to one question at this time.

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And when you get up to the microphone,
please state your name.

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Media affiliation and if possible,
if you'd like to speak to go ahead. Hi.

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Thank you. I'm
Richard Tribune with the Orlando Sentinel.

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And this question is for both Matthew
and Jeanette, your respective classes.

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Jeanette, you're the last of your class
to get to space.

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Matthew, You're the third, the last.

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And I just want to know what it's like to

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what are your feelings in

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finally getting to take off
And if you have any sort of ribbing

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that you do
for the people who are left behind.

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I think your Canadian colleague
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So that's affirmative.

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So, you know, I guess any launch
is a great launch if you have a mission.

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even though you're the last,
it doesn't matter.

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You get that launch,
you get the mission and you go and you go.

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They always save the best for last.

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Do I think you were making a question?

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Do we remember our classmates?

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Yes, a lot.

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It's it's
an important part of the culture.

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That stuff doesn't matter as much.

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Like our job here in
the astrophysics is just as important.

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We're doing the ground job.

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You go to space,
you get experience doing that,

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and you can bring that back
and give back to the office. In many ways.

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So I may say six, just as excited to fly
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my ground job and contribute to the office
and move human spaceflight forward.

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hi. Well,
Robinson Smith for spaceflight now.

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Good to see you all again.

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A question,
I guess, first to Jeanette, but really

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for all the members of the crew,
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you know,

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going through a year of intensive training

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and getting to know each other
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what would you say is kind of the moment
that sticks out most your mind

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when you were going through the training
process that you kind of felt like, okay,

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this is my crew.

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I'm kind of gelling with these,
you know, the rest of my team right now.

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I have to admit

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that I've trained
with so many different crews and,

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you know, so I have a baseline of where
everybody is and how things go.

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But from the start,
even during our emergency sims

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and different events that we would go
through, we've done pretty well as a crew.

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Everyone knows their job, they know
where to insert, where, not to insert.

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So I think as a crew,

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each person brings their own strength

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to the crew and, you know,
the contributions that each one makes

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has made all the training events
almost seamless.

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So we've been pretty gelling
from the beginning. So.

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Hi there.

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I'm Greg Diesel Walk with Earth Sky.

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My question is for Dr. Barrett.

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What have you experienced
in your previous missions

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that most prepares you for this one?

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Every mission
that builds to prepare you for the next,

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I'll give you my little niche
as a space medicine guy.

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How the human adapts to spaceflight
is just really amazing and the things

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that we've learned on station,
because it's a well-equipped laboratory.

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We have a high flight
rate of long duration fliers.

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It's a very rich source
of really the basic

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kind of information we need to develop
a medical standard of care.

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And so between the first or between
this last flight and this flight,

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I actually put out the second edition
of a space medicine textbook.

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And we're actually in the process
of doing a third edition

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of that space medicine textbook.

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And each time I do that,
I try to figure out how how right we are.

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And then I fly.

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I've done that twice,
and I figure out how wrong we are

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because we keep discovering
new things, things right in our nose

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that are important.

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Things like this.

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The eye thing, the eye brain changes.

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We've seen vascular system changes
that we've seen.

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So I'd like to say if I'm prepared at all,
it's to be an observer

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and I'm prepared to discover something
new again

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that we just didn't see
was hiding in plain sight in front of us.

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So it's still even though it's a it's
just a big laboratory in low-Earth

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orbit, it's a place of discovery.

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So I think I'm prepared to discover
something new.

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Good question. Thank you so much.

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Hi. Thanks
again for taking a second question for me.

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This one is for Jeanette.

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But for the rest of you, I'm
a little curious about

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when you're on station,
do you get to climb into

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the other spaceships that dock
I know you get to climb

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in the one that you're in,
but you've got potentially Starliner.

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You might even get a dream chaser.

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And then the Soyuz and Jeanette,

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since you trained in all three,
when they just let you in anyway.

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I would hope so.

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But I think someone else.

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Well,

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there is no guards posted at the gates.

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All right.

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So there's reasons why everybody
should have familiarity with the stack.

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And and I expect that
that will absolutely be true.

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So and, you know, somebody asked,
how do we gel as a crew,

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aside from the discipline and training
and aside from the fact that you got

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four amateur comedians on our crew
that do improv whenever they can,

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there's just huge curiosity amongst us.

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So everybody will want to know
every cubic centimeter

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of our stack volume
that includes the dock ships

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and of course some of that
we got to unload and reload. So

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I will.

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Robinson Smith
Again, thanks for the follow opportunity.

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Question for Matthew.

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You mentioned,

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you know, it's great to have this role
and be able to go to the SS,

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but you like doing all the jobs

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that you have leading up to
in the previous seven years.

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Question I guess first to you,
but you know, to the rest

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the crew ever wants to tackle it as well.

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What are you looking forward to
when you get back on Earth,

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bringing that onboard experience

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that you wouldn't necessarily
have sort of the firsthand insight into?

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And how do you think that will better
your jobs as part of the astronaut corps

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back here on earth?

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So my my background is in developmental
flight test.

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And so before I was tied to this mission,

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I was involved
in working on the development for Orion,

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HLS Starliner, and got to work
a bit of time on each of those projects.

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And I really love diving in deep with
engineers to solve those tough problems.

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But my background in U.S.

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Navy was doing Department of Flight Test.

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But the Navy thinks it's very important,
I think rightly so,

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that the people doing
the test have operational experience.

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And so in the Navy you would go
operational, go to flight test

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and then go back operational
and then go back and flight test.

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That way you always had
the relevant experience, right?

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You didn't you didn't want something
to be developed in a vacuum.

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You didn't want to build an airplane
in a vacuum.

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The same way.
We don't want to build a spaceship

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in a vacuum,
but it's going to fly in a vacuum.

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But you want to build it
in a mental vacuum, so to speak.

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You want to have it.

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The experience of the operator
being injected

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with the engineers
and they work as a cohesive team.

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So going
and getting this operational experience

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and then coming back and helping
develop the next spacecraft.

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Right.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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It looks like everybody's
had an opportunity to ask their questions.

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Yeah, it looks like that's the case.

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So I know I have a question from that.

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We're getting a lot

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from our online audiences for you guys,
and we'll wrap with this one.

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What is your last meal going to be before

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launching in the space

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Helping was to

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discuss those two things.

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Looking at the concrete
and concrete again,

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I think everybody ordered something
special for that particular crewmember.

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Member Yeah, there's also the Q

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what's it looks current products
on the menu that comes out of the soup.

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I decided to go with a traditional meal.

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I will have a soup.

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Always share

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some green vegetables in a meal.

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So I've got a new one and some meat

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with some starch or side dish watching.

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And you also, you know, nothing special.

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So yeah, we all.

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Okay.

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You know,
sometimes when people ask that question,

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they think it's because we get up there
and we just crave and miss foods.

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You don't for six months,
you're going to eat food.

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That seems very appropriate
to this magical place you're in.

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And so now that I've done this
a couple of times, I'm kind of like Sasha.

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I'm just ordering food that I like.

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So I'm going to have grilled salmon
and some grilled vegetables

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to go along with it.

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But but frankly,

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I can't wait to get up to the galley table

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and have some shrimp cocktail
in some Russian tomorrow.

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So I think

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somebody made a comment earlier
about ribbing each other.

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That's that's a good part of crew
cohesion.

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We've had a pretty long running joke.

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We love we love working with Sasha.

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He's awesome. He's very consistent.

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Every time we'd be on travel,
for example, out to Los Angeles

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to go to Space X, you know, Hey,
where are we going to dinner tonight?

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His answer was always, It must have beef.

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It needs beef.

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So it became very consistent.

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So we love that. He's very consistent.

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We knew what he would pick
for his last meal.

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And so for me, I you know,
we get to eat our cooked meals in space.

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We've had a lot of cool meals on
the ground.

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It's more about the people you're with.

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But for me,
I just said, whatever Mike's having

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because I trust his culinary choice.

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And I actually did the same thing.

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I kind of chose the foods

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that I love to eat, like butter,
chicken and saag and things like that.

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So nothing very special.

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It's just you want kind of the comfort
foods of home that you normally have

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and you want to enjoy those
just you know, while you're here.

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And then you go to space.

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Like Mike and Matt said,
you have the great foods on orbit

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and then we come back and, you know,
we do the same thing.

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So thank you.

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All right.

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NASA's Space X Crew, eight Mission crew.

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Thank you so much to all the media here
with us today.

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Thank you so much for coming.

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Meanwhile,
the flight readiness review is underway.

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We're going to be having a post

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flight readiness review telecon
at approximately 6 p.m..

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Thank you all for joining us.

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We'll see you then.

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Yeah,