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Good afternoon my name is Steve Kerner I'm the 
deputy Center Director here at the Johnson Space  

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Center and I'm very excited to welcome you to 
the closing of the CHAPEA 1 Mission what a day  

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to celebrate and commemorate this was the first 
of three NASA analog missions to simulate amar's  

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environment 378 days ago these four dedicated 
individuals who you're about to meet entered  

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this 3D printed 1700 square foot Mars habitat 
habitat simulation they have spent more than a  

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year in this habitat conducting crucial science 
most of it nutrition-based and how that impacts  

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their performance but crucial science as we 
prepare to send people on to the red planet  

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these four individuals volunteered more than a 
year ago to dedicate their time to this effort  

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I'm very appreciative they've been separated from 
their families placed on a carefully prescribed  

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meal plan and undergone a lot of observation 
when they come out give them a big round of  

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applause I can't wait to see the smile on 
their faces by growing and harvesting their  

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own vegetables communicating with a 22 minute 
delay at sometimes and conducting simulated  

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Mars walks This Crew has helped us obtained 
crucial information as we prepare to return  

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to the moon and on to Mars Mars is our goal 
AS Global interest and capabilities in space  

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exploration continue to expand America is poised 
to lead the completion of CHAPEA mission is an  

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important step in this goal thank you also to the 
Cross disciplinary teams that supported these four  

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I know that these four entered 378 days 
ago but there was a lot of work that went  

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into the preparation for this event uh some 
are in the room here but thank you to the  

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teams that supported them thank you to all who 
played a big role in executing this Mission so  

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you're not here to see me on stage I'd like to 
invite the deputy director of flight operations  

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astronaut Kjell Lindgren to the stage to 
open the door as we greet our four awesome

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guys ready to come

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out hey congratulations congratulations

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awesome do you guys have

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masks outstanding

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Awesome wow what what an awesome day um it is 
an absolute privilege to be here to there's a  

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there yells from outside the building um it is an 
absolute privilege to be here uh to welcome Kelly,  

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Nathan, Ross, Anca back home and to and to um to 
give them our serest sincerest congratulations um  

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you know I was trying to think of some traditions 
from my own end of mission experiences to share  

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with them but they were mostly centered around uh 
trying not to pass out and become actively sick  

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so we'll move on from that also mindful of the 
fact that We Stand between them and reunion with  

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their families so I will keep my comments short 
um how many fingerprints does it take to make a  

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footprint how many millions of uh hours did it 
take for the legions of Engineers and scientists  

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uh Fabricators and astronauts how many hands 
required to lift our rockets and spacecraft and  

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astronauts into orbit and to generally lower them 
back to the Earth how many unique contributions  

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how many fingerprints did it take to put that 
very first footprint on the lunar surface you  

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know um the path to Mars is beset with challenges 
and the crew and their families uh have committed  

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a year of their lives in service to NASA to the 
country and to Humanity's exploration of space  

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and so thank you congratulations and thank 
you to the crew for um putting your previous  

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careers on pause for a year and uh committing 
yourself to research that is going to enable  

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our future exploration of space uh huge thank 
you to the families for providing um families  

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and friends for providing uh support and for 
the many sacrifices that you've made over the  

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past year and thank you to the CHAPEA team to 
the leadership to the partners to the support  

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team the science team uh for execut for planning 
and executing an amazing Mission so your service  

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and sacrifice um are going to make our future 
deep space exploration successful and um your  

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fingerprints are going to be an indelible part of 
those first footprints on Mars so from on behalf  

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of the flight operations directorate and the 
astronaut office congratulations and welcome home

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and now I'd like to introduce uh the principal 
investigator for the CHAPEA mission um Grace

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Douglas thank you Kjell thank you all for 
joining us for this Milestone accomplishment  

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and welcoming our crew back from Mars 
over the past 378 days Commander Kelly  

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Haston flight engineer Ross Brockwell medical 
officer Nathan Jones and science officer Anca

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Selariu have dedicated their lives to achieve 
the objectives the scientists and engineers at  

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Nasa have set before them enabling us to 
collect thousands of data points yielding  

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a unique and valuable integrated data set in a 
Mars realistic simulation this data will give  

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us unprecedented insight into how we can best 
work together to achieve mission objectives  

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while maintaining health and performance 
for the success of future human missions  

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to Mars I want to congratulate all four of 
you on your tremendous efforts and express  

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my deepest gratitude to all of you and to your 
families and friends who have supported these  

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Endeavors and for the sacrifice all of 
you have made to contribute to the goals  

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of human exploration I also want to thank the 
science engineering and Mission Control teams  

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who worked collaboratively and tirelessly 
24 hours a day through every holiday and  

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weekend to support our crew to support data 
integrity and to support Mission success  

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it has been an honor to work with this crew and 
with this team and finally I want to thank the  

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public for their tremendous support for the human 
Spirit of exploration technological advancement  

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and discovery that will enable us to set the 
first boots on Mars I want to now introduce  

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Judy Hayes the chief science officer for human 
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thank you Grace um and congratulations because 
this would not have happened without Dr Douglas's  

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vision and so here we are today after the 
first mission so first thank you to this  

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pioneering crew they have volunteered to be the 
first in the CHAPEA analog and the first of two  

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more that will follow them also and I and I would 
Echo what others have said Thank you to the crew  

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that is behind the scenes the researchers the 
operations thank you sir those working research  

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and operations behind the scenes 24 hours a 
day to support this team here to be able to  

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be successful so well done the NASA human health 
and performance uh directorate is responsible for  

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astronaut health and performance we also do 
studies to support that our goal here um was  

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to study the um human system risks associated 
with exploration human space flight exploration  

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this CHAPEA experiment has played a huge role as 
we've heard before in the efforts for conducting  

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research that improves our understanding of how 
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Mars so I won't keep it too long I know there's 
there's many more important people to say things  

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so without further Ado I want to hand it over 
to to our courageous mission one crew uh that  

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has spent more than a year away from their 
family and friends to support the efforts  

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of NASA and with that I'm going to hand it off 
to Commander Kelly so congratulations welcome

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home hello it's actually just so wonderful to be 
able to say hello to you all um we wish to thank  

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thank everyone uh for the warm welcome home but 
also for being here with us today we know many of  

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you traveled very far to come and and took time 
out of your lives um not just for today but for  

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the whole mission and we also thank everyone uh 
from NASA to po1 has been a unique experience with  

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great challenges Joys and sorrows and a lot of 
hard work with a fair bit of fun thrown in as well  

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I wish to thank the crew my friends and family 
and my partner Elliot who told me not to Nam drop  

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him but he deserves it during this Mission these 
people have given an incredible richness of shared  

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experience and conversation a gift of love and 
support that made this year possible I am humbled  

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that being away on a one-year Mars analog brought 
me closer to those I was with and those I left  

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back at home to everyone in particular my family 
I'm so sorry I wasn't there for you this year and  

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I thank you all so very much and I extend this 
thank you to NASA for the opportunity and also  

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to everyone has worked so hard on the CHAPEA team 
this tremendous group of people has guided and  

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supported us throughout this Mission we applaud 
and thank you for your vision your execution  

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and bringing the first iteration of CHAPEA to 
completion what an accomplishment a huge Kudos  

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and we're so grateful to you all you've taken 
such good care of us I am so proud and honored  

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to be part of this crew and project and to be a 
part of a small incremental uh part of the work  

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being done here on Earth that will one day enable 
humans to explore and live on Mars thank you so

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much thanks Kelly well I'd like to say thank 
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for the amazing creativity and commitment and 
for everything you do thanks to my mom and to  

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Shannon for being so supportive thank you Ryan 
for saving my life for me while I was away on Mars  

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and thanks to these crew mates thanks for 
your knowledge and your skills thanks for  

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tolerating my experiment in hair science and 
thank you sincerely for all the good times  

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we've had throughout this Mission start to finish 
U I'm very grateful to have had this incredible  

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opportunity to live for a year within the spirit 
of planetary Adventure towards an exciting future  

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and I'm grateful for the chance to live the 
idea that we must utilize resources no faster  

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than they can be replenished and produce waste 
no faster than they can be processed back into  

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resources we cannot live Dream create or 
explore on any significant time frame if  

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we don't live these principles but if we do we can 
achieve and sustain amazing and inspiring things  

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like exploring other worlds and we can do these 
things together we can use our senses of Wonder  

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and purpose to achieve peace and prosperity and 
to unlock knowledge and joy for the benefit of  

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everyone and every part of planet Earth so 
this has been a wonderful experience and I  

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really hope this helps us get that much closer 
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you well I'm just excited to be here and um I've 
got a million thoughts just kind of racing through  

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my head right now uh for instance you know wow 
that went by quickly I really hope I don't cry  

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standing up here in front of all of you and um 
as a physician I'm so glad that my life events  

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led me here instead of being a proctologist 
I could still change my mind about that I'm  

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pretty young um you know it's funny I was just 
telling the uh other crew the other day um that  

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378 days in I didn't feel thanks Casey my 
wife's going to make me mess up that other  

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thing I mentioned there with the cry um but I 
told crew the other day that at 378 uh days in  

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I didn't feel like uh you know this could have 
been any day beyond 10 or at most 11 years since  

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we came in last June um you know um all that 
said you know and Jess though it really did uh  

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just kind of fly by I uh really just appreciate 
NASA giving me the opportunity to be here today  

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and um to get to uh show what uh what we could do 
I appreciate as been mentioned before all of the  

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CHAPEA team members many who have been here for 
so many years uh before we signed on and um many  

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who will still be here whenever we've completed 
our leg of the journey I also want to thank the  

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American public uh for continuing to dare to 
dream uh that uh that uh this Humanity might  

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go beyond uh Earth um and our next uh giant 
leap forward I also want to thank This Crew  

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who has just been amazing I just um really 
appreciate every every day that I've gotten  

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to spend with you guys and uh in addition to that 
um I would be remiss not to uh thank my friends  

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and family who I couldn't have done this without 
and finally I want to end with saying to my family  

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um I love you to Mars and back still oh next up 
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in case you forgot and I um 
I am too nervous admittedly  

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to Freestyle it as I've done 
at Ingress so I prepared a

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Papyrus I've been asked many times why the 
obsession with Mars why go to Mars because it's  

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possible because space can unite and bring out the 
best in us because because it's one defining step  

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that earthlings will take to light the way into 
the next centuries ch's presence here as a matter  

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of fact is symbolic for me I first saw him a few 
years ago a Colorado State University where he  

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shared his own story of defying odds and becoming 
an astronaut his words stay with me ever since  

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as testimony that only the laws of physics are 
obstacles to what we can achieve I am astonished  

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that I got to live at Mars Dune Alpha and that 
I got to contribute to the one thing that is  

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dearest to my heart bringing life to Mars no words 
can express how grateful I am to all who played  

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a part in me being here my beloved friends and 
family have always been there when I needed them  

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and I will always carry them in my heart and 
in my memory wherever I may go my deepest  

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gratitude to the Navy a family that I'm most 
proud to be a part of and serve alongside and  

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without whose support I would not be here 
at all I want to thank you the incredible  

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people of NASA for this once in a lifetime 
experience your passion your dedication  

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and courage are an inspiration for an entire 
planet thank you Kelly Ross and Nate as well  

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as your loved ones for making this one of the 
best and most meaningful years of my whole life.

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Last but not least to everyone watching dreaming 
and cheering for space exploration thank you  

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with this I would like to introduce Julie Kramer 
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Good afternoon I will make this very brief because 
I get what they were really wanting to get to is  

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to get out to see their families and friends but 
I want to take a chance to to um mention how how  

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the development of this analog has been a really 
unique and fascinating thing for our engineering  

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teams we're used to designing spacecraft and so 
this is not our typical sort of day job so it's  

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been a really interesting and educational 
opportunity for us to collaborate with the  

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health and human performance team to create 
this analog and so from working with Jacobs  

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and icon for building this up and outfitting it 
for the team to spend a year in there to creating  

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the mission content whether it was Mars walks 
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planned and unplanned um the the analoges really 
are so important to our understanding of what  

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it's going to take our Insight in into how our 
assumptions and how our architectures are really  

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going to work when the plans meet reality so the 
day-to-day constraints of how the crews have to  

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operate analoges like this are so important in 
ways that we can't even imagine when we plan so  

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executed here on Earth in a way that's more 
accessible um cost effective and lower risk  

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for the crews it gives us an opportunity to 
learn all these critical things about these  

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complex systems that it's going to make going 
to Mars and back a lot safer so we I'm not the  

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first one to say this and I'll say it because 
we believe it we understand it those of us that  

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work in human space flight we understand how 
much the family is sacrifice particularly for  

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our crew members so we would like to thank 
the crew and their families and friends for  

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their invaluable contributions in improving our 
understanding of living and working on these  

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extended missions stay tuned for CHAPEA mission 
2 which will happen next year and CHAPEA Mission  

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3 which will happen in 2027 we still have 
a lot left to learn and we hope you'll join  

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us on our journey please join me once more 
in welcoming CHAPEA mission one crew home.