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>> I can see you're walking on your own.
Very nice.
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Hello.
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Welcome to the land of Kazakhstan, and allow me
to present you with a little souvenir.
Roman has done this before, so he knows the routine.
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So allow me to present you with our traditional coat.
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The crew is into music, we've been told.
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Oh thank you.
Very nice.
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>> You stay there Chris.
>> Yes or no.
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>> The representatives from the Kursk Region made these for you,
and in honor of your return to earth.
So this is for you, and good luck in the future.
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Does it look like me?
Yes. It looks exactly like you.
>> [Foreign Language Spoken]
>> You already have 7 million views on YouTube.
>> Okay.
>> That's a lot.
>> [Foreign Language Spoken]
>> And that's a good song.
I'm glad that other people appreciate it.
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It's very important for humanity to be in space,
and it felt like music there, and it was a big part
of my life, and so I'm glad to know that I have millions
of viewa on YouTube, because it allows me
to share my experience.
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Sometimes we have a spare minute or two,
and so I played instruments, especially my favorite songs.
This was the last question, thank you very much.
We are done with questions.
One more please.
No, that is sufficient.
What about the [inaudible] situation.
Was it difficult?
We have a very good team,
and we worked well together resolving any issues
that may arise, and I think we had a very good
successful flight.
Smile.
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>> Thank you very much everyone.
>>Tom, first of all welcome back.
>> Thanks very much.
Good to be back.
So I guess I'll start with his.
The last couple of days on orbit were going to be kind of calm
with you guys getting sort of packed up and ready
to come back to earth.
That kind of changed a little bit, didn't it?
>> Oh yes.
We were shocked the day before the space walk to wake up
and find out we're going to actually start cleaning
out the airlock and go all the way through execution
of a spacewalk in 48 hours.
And I don't know if that's ever been done before on station,
with the station crew.
So that was very exciting.
>> As always, I liked to actually have to get up
and do that, and you guys had trained for it, but what was it
like to actually get up there
and actually do the spacewalk itself?
>> It was surprisingly relaxing.
The ground had done such great preparation for us.
We had a busy day the day before getting ready.
So when we woke up, Chris Cassidy, and Chris Hadfield
and I, we just got to looked at each other and said, this is it.
This is amazing.
I just went by the timeline, felt safe, didn't feel rushed.
A little bit tired, but it's very exciting.
>> So besides that, when you look back on your time
on board the space station, what are you going
to remember the most about it?
>> Two things.
My relationship with people.
Not just the crew, which is one of the biggest impressions,
but the relationship with the people on the ground.
All those voices from around the world almost become your crew
mates, even though there's no face necessarily associated
with them.
But you get the feeling of this huge team effort.
We got a lot of experimental work done,
refurbishing experiments and getting some data
for the ground, and working together as a whole team,
including with everyone
on the ground is what I'm going to remember the most.
>> So last question.
What are your thoughts and what was the experience
like on board the Soyuz?
I guess a little bit different then the space shuttle was,
right?
>> Yes. Definitely exciting ride on the Soyuz.
I highly recommend it.
The landing is completely different from the shuttle.
A lot of spinning and rocking.
Just exciting.
I don't know if the come was going,
but we were just shouting out, woohoo most of the time
because it's so much fun.
>> Well welcome back, and we'll see you back in Houston.
>> Thanks Josh.
Really good to be back.
Thanks.
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