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Speaker 2: And splashdown, CREWD I'm back on Earth.

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Speaker 3: Jesus nun.

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Speaker 2: Waiting him in the sky. Splash down, copy, flash down,

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Speaker 2: we see main shoots, cut Nick, Alex Butch, Sonny on

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Speaker 2: behalf of s Basic, Welcome home.

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Speaker 1: And there you have it.

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Speaker 2: The side hatch is open for the first time since September.

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Speaker 3: Oh, looks like we're getting our next crew member here.

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Speaker 3: That is none other than Sonny Williams. Big smile, big waves. She,

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Speaker 3: like her other crew members, now will be assisted onto

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Speaker 3: the Nobility Aid.

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Speaker 2: There we have it. Some waves, some thumbs up and

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Speaker 4: Well you did you and got some food and missed

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Speaker 4: a key moment of it, but I was glued to

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Speaker 5: Hi, y'all, let's bring in Professor Alan Duffy. Now, good morning, professor.

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Speaker 5: What a cue teacher day yesterday, I'm gathering it all

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Speaker 5: went to plan.

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Speaker 1: Yes, good morning. It was a great outcome, absolutely perfect

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Speaker 1: de orbit landing, and they even got a pod of

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Speaker 1: dolphins to greet them, which is one of the more

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Speaker 1: surreal experiences. It was incredible, right.

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Speaker 4: It was like watching a movie watching that whole scene

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Speaker 4: play out. As an expert in the field, were you

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Speaker 4: just know that it was going.

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Speaker 6: To work out?

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Speaker 1: No, No, I was worried for the crew. There's a

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Speaker 1: few stages which are incredibly dangerous. That there's the one

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Speaker 1: hour and slowing down, burning through the atmosphere. That's very dangerous.

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Speaker 1: I guess the sixteen hundred degrees on the outside, there's

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Speaker 1: flames flicking up over the windows. These are the really

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Speaker 7: One it looked like a bit of a burnt marshmallow, right,

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Speaker 7: What's happening to your body when you're traveling that quickly?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so look you're getting an incredibly violent roller coaster.

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Speaker 1: It's been described as so the crew are coming from

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Speaker 1: this kind of serene experience sitting in orbit. They haven't

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Speaker 1: walked for nine months, they haven't felt gravity, the weight

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Speaker 1: to go through that on the way down, which becomes

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Speaker 1: an extremely grueling physical experience. Just two minutes and it's over.

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Speaker 5: Was about to say how long would that part be?

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Speaker 5: Just the two minutes, because all that was it a

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Speaker 5: seventeen hour trip home.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so seventeen hours of agonizingly boring I think tension

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Speaker 1: building orbits of the Earth getting ever closer until finally

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Speaker 1: they go in for that last plunge through the atmosphere.

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Speaker 7: So they press the button like they decide when they plunge.

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Speaker 1: No, they've got no control there.

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Speaker 6: They just strapped in.

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Speaker 1: They're strapped in the moment from the space station. They've

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Speaker 1: got a seventeen hour automated roller coaster.

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Speaker 5: This might be a stupid question, go here we go.

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Speaker 5: Is there any sort of on board entertainment?

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Speaker 6: I knew you were going to ask for seventeen.

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Speaker 5: Hours, I'm sorry, Like you download a podcast or something,

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Speaker 1: It's a great question. There's a lot of there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of screens monitors on board the Dragon particularly, it's

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Speaker 1: it's drag. Yeah, the Dragon capsule. It's made by SpaceX.

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Speaker 1: Same that's a Lottle Master. It's the same as test Us.

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Speaker 1: So there are screens that it looks like an incredible tesla.

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Speaker 1: And but my understanding is there are no entertainment. There's

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Speaker 4: So it's obviously, like you said, like a violent rollercoaster

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Speaker 4: parachutes to me just looked so basic. Is that like,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it was the big moment for the parachutes

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Speaker 5: We are on the air with Professor Alan Duffy this morning.

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Speaker 5: We are talking about Butcher and Sunny, the astronauts returning

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Speaker 5: to Earth. After what nine months? They were saying, because

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Speaker 5: you know, zero gravity nine months, they wouldn't be able

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Speaker 5: at NASA. So is that almost like a pins and

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Speaker 5: needles job, You just got to slightly work your legs

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Speaker 5: until they kick in or would they just have no muscle?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? No, so's there's two issues they're facing. The first

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Speaker 1: the other challenge, they also don't they haven't walked for ninemens.

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Speaker 1: They haven't got a sense of down, a direction of down.

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Speaker 7: Hey, professor, what did they be? Gods? They were stuck

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Speaker 7: up there for so much longer than they anticipated. Were

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Speaker 7: they given extra tasks? Like did they achieve anything that

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Speaker 7: they weren't actually initially set out to do?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great question. They had lots of duties. They

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Speaker 1: fix this aging space station, but in particular there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of science experience. I think Butcher clocked nine

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Speaker 1: hundred hours of science experimentation up there my own Unich

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Speaker 1: swimmer and we actually fly up experiments every year to

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Speaker 1: getting helped by bus that would call moment. But yes,

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Speaker 4: Exactly were they how far away from land from Earth

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Speaker 1: Yes? So the space station orbits about four hundred kilometers

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Speaker 6: Space freaks, man, that's pretty.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 5: I recently watched Matt Damon in The Martian where he

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Speaker 5: grew the potatoes because he was stuck on Mars. Enough

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Speaker 5: were stuck their head. How they go with supplies?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, they do grow a little bit of food

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Speaker 1: you know, actual variety in their diet. Most of it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's packaged up. It's their little squishy sacks food. It's

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Speaker 1: not great. It doesn't look very fun. Well, the biggest

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Speaker 1: it just builds up. It swells your sinuses. It's like

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Speaker 1: you've got a cold for nine months. You cannot smell

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Speaker 6: Oh would be so fit if we couldn't smell or taste.

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Speaker 4: Hey, professor, bro Bro, Professor, do you believe in aliens?

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Speaker 1: I do? I think there are so many habitable We

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Speaker 1: have now discovered so many twins of the Earth in

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Speaker 1: of them. But the chances are billions to one against alone,

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Speaker 1: So I think the stats have to play out the way.

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Speaker 4: Alon's really work getting Do you think he's going to

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Speaker 4: get there in our lifetime.

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Speaker 1: Bro, I actually think he does. He's a billionaire who

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Speaker 1: has the most powerful rocket in the world.

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Speaker 6: We're taking the Tesla's and we're going to Mars, Baby.

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Speaker 5: Professor, our and Duffy joining us on the air Mate,

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Speaker 5: thank you so much. That was a great insight. We

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Speaker 5: appreciated that.

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Speaker 6: I think Smith, imagine you serious.

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Speaker 5: You would have had a few yesterday watching that thing.

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Speaker 5: My an, Professor, I'm actually training for a run. I

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Speaker 5: had nothing coffee, I know, but it was it was

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Speaker 5: a ninety year What am I going to do?

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Speaker 4: No time doesn't count in space, Professor, Like the international

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Speaker 4: departures at the airport, Champagne is fine at anytime. Jason

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