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>> [Background conversation].
Good morning [inaudible].
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>> [Foreign language spoken].
Yes. Go ahead.
I have a request.
If you have -- if you are to do something, please go ahead
and do it and keep talking what you are doing.
Yes I keep talking all the time.
[Background conversation].
We'll keep talking.
I promise.
Next one please.
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>> Please have a seat and we'll be taking pictures.
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>> [Inaudible] the journalists will soon be ready
to ask you some questions.
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>> [Inaudible] do something special.
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>> [Foreign Language Spoken]
>> Questions to the crew please, go ahead.
>> [Foreign language spoken]
>> [Inaudible] please.
>> [Inaudible] -- this is going
to be your first launch aboard the Soyuz.
What kind of challenges does this training
for this launch have, versus your training for your Mission
on Shuttle Discovery 5 years ago?
>> Karen Nyberg: Certainly, technically there's a lot
of similar challenges.
For me, probably the biggest challenge is the
Russian language.
It's been a challenge for me [chuckles],
learning the language.
Hopefully I've learned it to a point
where I can be an efficient and effective crew member
and do all the roles that I need to do.
>> Fyodor Yurchikhin: [Inaudible].
[Foreign language spoken].
Because we use your experience in space, and she is one
of our [inaudible], one main [inaudible].
Yes?
>> Luca Parmitano: I agree.
Yeah.
>> Karen Nyberg: Thank you [inaudible].
>> Luca Parmitano: [Inaudible]
that she certainly overcame the challenge
of the Russian language --
>> Fyodor Yurchikhin: Yeah.
>> Luca Parmitano: -- because she's really a lot of help.
>> Well for Luca Parmitano for both NASA and for ESA,
you've flown in many different kinds of aircraft
as a test pilot, what are you looking forward to the most
for flying for the first time in the Soyuz vehicle?
If you could answer please in both English and Italian.
>> Luca Parmitano: Absolutely.
We're, well the answer is in the question already.
It's the first time that I fly in a real spacecraft.
So as a test pilot, it's always a great emotion to fly
for the first tie a new machine.
So I'm just looking forward to see how the machine performs
in real life and the real flight after training
so much in a simulator.
[ Italian Spoken ]
>> [Chuckles] would you like me to say the rest in French too?
That's enough.
Thank you.
>> Fyodor Yurchikhin: [Foreign language spoken] [chuckles].
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>> Luca the hatch is open.
>> Luca Parmitano: Yes I got it.
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>> The hatch is closed.
>> [Foreign language spoken] copy.
The hatch is closed.
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