You know at one time this was not a place [that] was acknowledged to exist
when I was a lieutenant in the us, navy in the early 90s
I was flying an F-14 Tomcat and their primary mission [was] to shoot down the you know the russian bomber
Wherever you know went to war it was quite possible that we would have been you know fighting against one another
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I never really imagined living here and spending as much time here as I have
You know when that is my last time in Russia. I think it'll be a sad day
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I don't generally cook in a flight suit, but I've been a slacker out here like someone cooks for dinner every night
I've been here a week, and I haven't done anything against I'm feeling guilty
Why not right? I figured I'd let [it] cook all [day] while I'm in the simulator
That's unique place
I've been coming out here for 15 [years] now though walking down the same path
Seen some crazy things on this path
Star City is definitely different. That's got this quaintness and kind of in some ways trapped in time
Part about it
You know a lot of the people that work here live [here] and Houston no one lives at the Johnson Space Center
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We knew very little about Star City?
We knew that it was effectively the belly of the beast it was the brain trust of the soviet space program
Very much like our houston [our] cape canaveral
And it was a place that was doing things more ambitiously and more successfully than we were
It was the place that gave us Gagarin it was the place that gave us the soviet
Dominance of the high ground [of] space, and it scared the daylights out of us
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There is exactly one ride to space for American astronauts, and that's aboard the Russian Soyuz
Courtesy [of] the technology we once feared we once envied and we once fought to learn about
Well welcome to G CTC the Gagarin cosmonaut Training Center in Star City Russia
It is tight squeeze
I'm not very tall [and] it makes me feel like I'm too tall
When you can't move is can be kind of excruciating [ly] painful
[but] you know, it's the price we pay [for] the flying space
The flight is definitely starting to feel a little bit closer. We [do] only have
you know two training events left basically of
Two years and thousands and thousands of hours [of] stuff that I've done
To get to this point. There's only today and tomorrow left, so I talked to Terry
virts and very well more on the space station last night and
asked them, so
So if you were me, what would you?
What would you be doing right now?
Getting ready for launch and they said enjoy gravity
So there's three [crewmembers] in here the center Seat is the sleeves commander, Gennady Padalka?
my seat is over there in the right seat, and that's the flight engineer number [to]
The seat I'm sitting in is for the main flight engineer
[Misha] Kornienko that I'm Gonna be on the space station for a whole year with
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You know I've known him for 15 years since I first started [coming] out here. I call him my brother from another mother
He thinks that's funny
There is obviously tension between the us and Russia
But it's not something [that]
the Crew members ever
Talk about you know. We're not politicians, and we leave it to the politicians from our respective countries to do that for us
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Well, you're in a small space with just a few people on the space [station], and it's a pretty confining
Can't go outside. You know you just can't take a break you can't get away from you know other folks that are that are there
you know so you have to work really hard to you know figure [out] how you're gonna relate to everybody and interact and I mean
Those things become [very] important when you're on a long-duration flight like that
You know space shuttle flights that I've commanded you know we're relatively short couple weeks
But a year, it's challenging
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We cannot be on one side [of] a hill without wondering what's on the other side of the hill
If you ask why we go to space [you] might as well ask why do we dance why do we care about?
Football who cares it accomplishes nothing?
It doesn't nothing that keeps you alive
but it's part of the very reason you want to remain alive and
That I think is what space does in a larger and grander and more
Ambitious way than any other Enterprise human beings can undertake
The training flow has not been that hard, but when you look back on [the] retrospect. That's still a lot of work
And I'm definitely ready to head on with the real thing you know enough of training
[let's] launch and start doing this for real again
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