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hello my name is tom marshburn and i'm
an astronaut living and working aboard
the international space station this is
a spacecraft about the size of a
five-bedroom house orbiting 250 miles
high traveling 17 500 miles per hour
around the earth so fast that we circle
the earth every 90 minutes still we're
close enough to be seen from earth and
we look like a bright star moving across
the sky we get to see spectacular views
of the earth but we also love to gaze
the beauty of the moon and our universe
manassas is getting ready for artemis 1
the first test of our new space launch
system and the orion spacecraft that
will travel thousands of miles beyond
the moon this mission is helping us get
ready to put the first woman and the
first person of color on the moon's
surface as we build the knowledge we
need to go even further
i'm excited today to read a book that
has inspired kids on earth about our
moon and encouraged them to explore the
world around them for 75 years
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goodnight moon by margaret wise brown
pictures by clement hurd
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in the great green room there was a
telephone and a red balloon
and a picture of
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the cow jumping over the moon and there
were three little bears sitting on
chairs
and two little kittens and a pair of
mittens
and a little toy house
and a young mouse
and a comb in a brush in a bowl full of
mush and a quiet old lady who is
whispering hush
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goodnight room
good night moon
good night cow jumping over the moon
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good night light and the red balloon
good night bears and good night chairs
good night kittens and good night
mittens
good night clocks and good night socks
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good night little house and good night
mouse
good night comb and good night brush
good night nobody
good night mush
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and good night to the little old lady
whispering hush
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good night stars good night air
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good night noises everywhere
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several questions were submitted by
students about our experiences here on
the space station which we're happy to
answer now i'm tom marshburn mark vande
high
both astronauts and the first question
is by natalie g from pennsylvania
what do you do to pass the time when you
aren't working on the iss
great question i like to look out the
windows the views are incredible
i really like to read a lot and one of
my favorite things is to talk to my
family back on the earth we are very
well supported with the ability to make
phone calls from up here
ooh tom this is a good one this one is
from theaw from kansas
who asks
when will we go to the moon again great
question there is the space launch
system we're going to be testing it out
and soon we'll be launching that in the
orion spacecraft deep into space we hope
to go to the moon and bring the first
crew soon in the next few years to the
moon and even land on the moon here in
the next decade ashlynbee from michigan
asks
can you see color in space how would it
look if you drew on a piece of paper
where the colors look the same as on
earth
uh yes absolutely we can see colors in
space it's v our eyes work just the same
as of course we're in air up here and
when i look out the window i'm looking
from an air environment out the window
into space
but it's very much like when you look up
into space and see stars of course you
can see mildly different colors because
a lot of brightness
but as you can see around us we've got
lots of different colors tom and i are
dressed in kind of drab colors both of
us are wearing gray but uh we've got
lots of flags behind us you can see
colors in there um
and when we look out the window like i
mentioned earlier we can see the colors
of the ocean and the deserts and all the
shades of different browns and
and the
full moon shining on uh the terrain is
beautiful and then with city lights at
night and the orange of those lights
so many different colors are a joy for
us to see up here so i'm very very happy
that we can see colors in space
okay another good question tom chloe oh
from texas where tom and i both live
asks
what was the biggest challenge you faced
in space
so far and how did you overcome it
waiting for your flight
is challenging we do do a lot of work to
get here one of the things we have to do
is learn another language probably
learning russian was one of the biggest
challenges i had
as a requirement to get here to the
space station
but the other challenge is there's so
much to do so much to see up here it's
quite distracting and so getting one
thing done can be a challenge
all right mark
rocco m from iowa is asking if you
didn't become an astronaut what would
you have wanted to be
part of me wants to join the circus but
i'm kind of joking i don't think that's
not going to happen um
i
i would have loved to have been a
teacher
uh that was a potential career for me i
also was very interested in using my
physics background
to get involved in
production of alternate forms of energy
because we're going to need energy and
we've got to find a renewable way to get
that that's uh inexpensive enough for
people to want to use it
so those are very appealing things to me
also i especially even after flying i'm
very i have a lot of
concern about our environment so any job
that's associated with helping us live
more sustainably in the future
is something i was interested in and i
might be even more motivated about it
now that i've been able to look back on
our beautiful planet from space
caleb w from maryland asks
what do stars look like in outer space
stars look a bit like they do on earth
if you went out into a field away from a
big city on a cold winter night with no
clouds uh just bright and brilliant you
can see so many stars
and almost there's
countless stars there however in space
when we see them they don't twinkle
there's no atmosphere for the starlight
to go through
so they're just
direct steady points of light and quite
fascinating and absolutely beautiful
so mark grayson b from missouri asks
what is it like to float in space
if i'm not touching any surfaces or like
tom is right now not touching any
surfaces then it's kind of like being in
a pool where
for us right now the only thing that's
touching us is our clothes
and our uh
and the air if you're in a pool the only
thing that's touching you is the water
in your swimming suit so that's the
closest analogy i can make
what i would say the best part about it
here though is the complete freedom of
motion we have a lot of fun doing flips
like tom and i are doing right now
and actually tom doesn't know i'm gonna
ask him to do this yet and who knows if
they'll actually leave this in the video
but you want to try doing that super
fast spin
so that does make us very dizzy when
you're spinning like that
the person that's being spun
can't tell what's going on because
things are going by so fast they have to
be very trusting because you have no
control over where you're going to end
up and then you actually don't get dizzy
until the person gets stopped and then
all of a sudden everything else keeps
spinning even though you've stopped
moving your body
something we've been having fun with
lately and everybody's been safe
great questions thanks bye-bye
you