about the america based program and now to the gallagher theater. >> good afternoon. editor of the arizona daily star it is my privilege to spend the next hour talking with commander scott kelly first to couple of housekeeping item our intention is to chat for half an hour and opened the floor to questions because we are

live it is important you speak your question into the microphone. following this presentation right after commander kelly will do an interview right after this so at 4:00 o'clock he will be at the bookstore tends you can get your book fair signed for a dollar we hope you are a friend of the festival it helps with the literacy effort and if you are enjoying yourself today and a free concert with the rock-bottom remainders so that is not to be missed.

if anybody came in late please silence your self on. let's get going. scott kelly is no stranger to spaceflight with three missions lasting 159 days and then volunteered to send a full year aboard the iss. largely to see what happens to the human body that long in faith. so his book endurance chronicles that year in fascinating detail. it isn't a natural interest of mine it is really fascinating. and you talk about the childhood and what is really interesting or have zero

interest i guarantee you will enjoy the book. holding the american record for consecutive days and in outer space the book open from the ear and face and then walk with his leg swollen like big giant water balloon that he is a retired u.s. navy captain and fighter pilot as well as a test pilot and engineer and astronaut commanded the international space station he also set records for the accumulated number of days in faith and the single longest space mission by the american astronaut. please help me welcome commander scott kelly be 14. >> caller: [applause] >> is great to be here

anywhere with gravity after one year and no space off met not one empty seat in the house. we appreciate you coming out to support books but what i like to do first is read from the book in my own voice. if you do that they don't have to buy the audiobooks. >> but you should left the. >> reading from the prologue after i got back from space about 48 hours hours after i got back and landed on earth. sitting at the head of my dining room table with my

longtime girlfriend and my you say that's now sitting right there and my daughter my twin brother and his wife a simple things sitting at a table with those that you love and many do it every day without giving it much thought but for me something i have been dreaming of for almost a year. i contemplated what it would be like to eat this meal so many times but now that i'm here it doesn't seem real. the faces of the people i love and the chatter of people talking together with the clink of silverware even the sensation of gravity and every time putting a glass or fork down on the table a part of my mind is looking for velcro or duct tape to hold it in place

back on earth 48 hours i struggled to stand up feeling like a old man stick a fork in me. i'm done. everyone encourages me to get rest so i do. then i wake up a few hours later than i struggled to get up to set up and stand up but when i am vertical the pain in my legs is awful and i feel something more alarming all the blood is rushing to my bought one -- to my legs like this invitation to your head. like a headstand i can feel the tissue selling i shuffle my way to the bathroom moving weight from one to be out there with a deliberate effort. i looked down at my legs they were swollen thoughts and not

legs at all. other any little kids in here? muffs. this is on tv? crab. look at this one ankle and it squishes she looks up at me with worried eyes i cannot feel your ankle bone and then there are 364 more pages. [applause] >> so what led you to be an astronaut? >> i am very atypical that wound up with this job because when i was younger i was really, really bad student and

if there are kids in here do not use me as an example it is much harder to recover just start off ahead. mike couldn't pay attention looking outside my whole first 13 years of my education and trying to get out of the classroom faster even though i didn't do that great in high school i still went to college and was struggling there as well. i didn't know how to study or pay attention maybe i would have gotten more help abi would be a person with add or adhd that have helped there wasn't much help section and i was a struggling student walking across the college campus into the bookstore to

buy gum, not a book. [laughter] i was not a particularly big reader at that time and they see the book on the shelf with a red white and blue cover and maybe pick that up i read the back i was interested in then went back my door room and then made their and read the stories of the fighter pilot that became the test pilot and the book was the right stuff by tom wolfe. so those traits of real people that they had in themselves with only one exception that i was a bad dude. i thought if i could fix that

one thing i could graduate from college to be an engineer within a test file or maybe even an astronaut. it was a spark that i needed to get me moving in a positive direction and teach myself how to study and pay attention but that never would have happened if not inspired from a book. >> it's funny you say that to the kids that is the part that i found the most irrational doesn't seem surprising that it was easy for them that they would go on to excel and inspirational for kids to know you don't have to have the perfect start. but still pursue that.

and kids should be. >> it is a good story how it's never too late to change or change your situation. and how i never felt i could be a good student i felt i could do something but it had nothing to do with rule but then i figured it out because i had no choice. but then it became easier. for people who want to do more in their life, young or old. with a little bit of endurance. >> one thing i find fascinating and what you never

think about and how incredibly different it is so talk about what phase smells like? >> that question has a lot of different answers. but the space station is a big place people live there for a year we don't take a shower so there are smells associated with that and you store all of your garbage for months at a time before you get rid of it with a resupply ship that eventually burns up so does have quirky smells that one that is the most anybody who is ever snow that will never forget basically the air that is now recently a vacuum.

if we dock to the ships together and reintroduce air into that volume or somebody does a space bar -- a space walk to me it smells like burning metal or like a sparkler some people say sweet but i don't smell the sweetness that what you would expect metal to smell like. and i can talk about the stuff that we throw away but anything can be garbage. you have to be super careful because of the little droplet of blood gets out and a new

arrival is sick and they do not want him throwing up and how anything is garbage. that makes everything challenging to do. and one is moving heavy objects and then to put your body in unusual attitudes. you have no idea how much easier it would be to flip yourself upside down. and with blood samples not only to conduct science

experiments on the space station but there is a lot of times and taking samples. >> why can happen if a drop close away? >> it makes a mess on the wall back but didn't you talk about it getting in between? be my guest of throws -- goes all in all over the place. >> nobody knows what happened to the year in space with the human body in space with the human body the einstein twin paradox and interestingly they use this as an example one twin on earth potentially and

then the other goddess going fast at a slower rate how time is perceived the talk about aging face that tv is what you're talking about spending 500 more days in space and my brother i used to be six minutes younger and i6 minutes and eight milliseconds but i will take it. >> generically with those experiments with my brother and i one thing they found that is interesting at the end of the chromosomes not base rate we were born had they were sure and more afraid and

direction of better which is the opposite that is what the hypothesis was probably not a fountain of youth that when you have a hypothesis exact opposite two days after i returned my numbers on back to number one -- normal where they were. you see in the cap fruit and vegetables then you notice they are rotting really quickly. >> maybe the data indicates it wasn't happening. then this yes rotten pretty quick. >> so talk about vision -- your book in vision,.

>> you want to talk about the medical staff? >> that's the cool stuff. >> what about launching a rocket? that also make it feels like standing on your head without the congestion there are so many other aspects of the human anatomy revolve under earth's gravity and don't respond well to have it taken away the increased fluid and pressure squishing our eyeballs out of shape to cause swelling in the eyes and optic nerves what you are aware of that at the time? you make you can feel that. like there is a rap song called big headed astronaut it isn't just about our egos. maybe some but your head feels

: because there is a fluid shifting your body that gravity pulls down the we don't need as much blood as we have if not for gravity bodies always fighting against gravity so when you go to space pushing down on your circulatory system you have all the extra fluid that is redistributed to make your head swollen even after a year at the end of my flight i still had a little bit of a swollen head which is not the most comfortable thing. it causes congestion and you definitely feel it. no question. >> talk about carbon oxide something that you really wrestled with and that you planed about those levels going up and what that did to

your body. >> maybe that spectrum with the outlier how that affects me that we have a system that reduces carbon oxide and we have a mechanical system that works well doesn't keep it where it is on earth if it is that its lowest on the space station ten times higher than here. i was sensitive to what i could feel a 0.2 millimeters of mercury of carbon dioxide gives burning eyes, congestion, for m me, it affects your ability to concentrate so just to be aware of that and raising

awareness and systems that are better to keep carbon dioxide low. you don't want to live on her ten times higher carbon dioxide that we do. >> we all know that astronaut i.c.e. cream that even the act of sitting down to a meal you are sitting down? >> i.e. i.c.e. cream in space a klondike bar. astronaut i.c.e. cream is not something i have seen. only at disney world but the process of eating is much

different. and it is related to sleeping when we are on earth we are opposing gravity all the time. going about our daily lives and when you sit down you are more relaxed but when it's time to go to sleep you are more comfortable there is no change of level of relaxation which people like to relax that is an enjoyable feeling to help us sleep that night or in space working on a computer or to watch television if it is time to have a meal time to go to sleep it is not a relaxing thing just sitting at

the table but then everything floats. because the worst thing that could happen is you measure student space but when you have your favorite spoon that is one of the worst things that can happen left mac. >> is everything cold there is no cooking? >> we do have a food warmer. a case with heating element you would think a microwave would be admitting to have. and to be concerned interferes with the hot water and hot

kind of like camping food. >> there is something that the russians enjoyed but the appetizing appetizer? >> it's neither left mac. [laughter] i know what it is. >> so let's talk about the mission itself. talking about small space? >> launching into space four times and twice in the space shuttle and twice on this will use their similar that they launch people into space and that is where the similarities stop. [laughter] but the space shuttle was designed for a bunch of

different missions large payloads, 50000 pounds and grabbing a satellite and bigger than a school bus a science lab so really it is assigned to put people in space it doesn't pretty well. the first is from 1999 ironically 18 years today when i read the book the right stuff i was 18 i read the book as a struggling student and then 18 years later i fly in space for the first time nothing like that first launch into space you get into the space shuttle and then to be completely abandon where is

you and six other crewmates and people to help you get strapped in because it could blow a lot potentially so you get strapped in and they closed the hatch and you lie on your back looking up at the sky the clock counts down from about three hours prior with systems ready for launch, over 2000 search -- switches and circuit breakers the most desiccated vehicle ever built for a kid who could not do his homework. the clock stops at nine minutes to give you time to catch up if you are behind this is also the moment you think this is really stupid. flying into space especially when you've never done it before.

but you cannot get away you are strapped in and that hatch is closed. the net would be embarrassing and not 32nd the computer takes over at 61 -- at 62nd the engines light but you don't go anywhere because you are bolted then the bolt are exploded open it feels like the hand of god has lifting you up and throws you into outer space you have seen the shuttle launch in person it looks like it is slowly but inside there is nothing slow about it. you get the feeling you are going somewhere. you're not sure where but you know you're not coming back to florida. [laughter] eight and a half minutes you

fly around the earth thousands of miles an hour. and on the soy uses a different experience. so now there is three of you as you soyuz is smaller but still serious business with liquid oxygen and liquid kerosene all the paper comes off it is supercool coming off the outside you get up to the launchpad and context the and one -- cause axon. there was 100 people up there. it's like a party. and the russians have been great partners in the space program and i have a lot of respect for those i have come

across. . . . . it's cloud, hot, there's no count downclock on the soyuz. so with no countdown clock, after a while you're like, what time are we leaving? so like that 10:10.

is that moscow time? time passes and pretty soon some guys comes up on the radio and situation "is mission" and i can see a smoker out there with -- and then you turbo pumps start up and the rocket motors light, but without the solid rocket motors. the soyuz lifts off slowly but within nine minutes you're going 25 times the speed of sound. >> host: then coming back, what -- during you're year up there, the soyuz has having problems coming and going or just the delivery vehicle for the stuff coming up. >> we had progress -- we get our supplies with these uncrewed cargo ships. some are russian, some are u.s. i think what you're referring is to one of the russian ones crashed into the pacific ocean.

they thought maybe our soyuz had a similar issue, which would not have been good. we also lost a u.s. resupply ship, a spacex blew up on the way, but -- nasa does a good job of preparing for these kind eventualities. had we lost the third one we would have been in bigger trouble. >> do those kinds of issues plan a little terror in you knowing you are coming back into the atmosphere. >> i think terror is a strong word. i would say you think about these things. when you're doing something this risky, you definitely think about your mortality and the fact that it could kill you, but like a lot of people that do risky things, you rationalize it in your mind. you decide that it's important. you feel strongly about it.

so you don't dwell on it. but it is a risky thing to be doing. we had space shuttle and 140 flights two fatal accidents. one in 70 chance of getting killed. almost like if i had a deck of cards and threw them in the audience, who got the ace of spades would never go home again. that's the kind of risk involved. >> what did you learn about your physical self during your year in space? >> well, one thing i learned, after being in space for a year, i came back smarter and more handsome than my twin brother, mark. [laughter] >> and since this is his town, i felt obligated to share that with you. i think most thing is learned is from like a psychological standpoint issue was able to deal with being there for a long

time. i had the advantage, like you said, i flew 159 days in space previously so i knew what i was getting into. but i got to the end and didn't feel like i was climbing the walls or anything. definitely ready to come home, but had i had to stay for a reasonable -- reason, it wouldn't have been a problem. >> what about for your family? the career you chose is obviously tough on -- that's a long time to be away obviously. >> yeah, it is. it's hard on them. my kids always -- i became an astronaut in 1996 so my youngest -- my oldest daughter was not yet two years old, so all -- my two kids and my brother's two kids, they don't remember their dad and their uncle not being an astronaut. so it was something that they -- it was always the case. a mikko, we had been in

relationship for almost ten years now, and it's something that she had to get used to dealing with. some ways the experience is more challenging for the family members you leave behind, and i understand and respect that. my biggest concern always on the space station was it was never really about my personal risk. i was always worried about what could happen with my family members on earth when there's no possibility of you coming home, specially when i experienced that first hand when, on my previous flight, gabby and six other people and six people were killed and a bunch of other people shot here in tucson. so that was something that i had to -- i experienced first hand when i was halfway through my 159 day flight. and then knowing that those kind of things can occur, and not

having -- not have any ability to get home. >> we're going to open it up to questions so if you have a question, get in line and while you do that i'll ask one last question. what's next for you. >> still work on some books. i have a young reader version of this book coming out in october, as well as a picture book coming out in october, and then i have, like, three mother kids' books i need to start working on with the same publisher, penguin random house. i do a lot of public speaking. at some point i think in the next year or so might have to figure out something else to do. >> okay. let's start over here. >> i just wondered, with awe the people you have visiting the space station from different countries, does the space station have a clock and what time is it in space station?

>> it's a good question. so, we're flying around the earth really fast, 16 times a day to generally day/night cycling not something that you can operate on, like, it's dark, let's good to sleep. so you use time the computers have a clock on them. you have a watch. we use greenwich meantime on the space station. not because it's an international standard of time but it was just most convenient time to be on when you have these different control centers around the world, and japan, germany, the u.s., and russia, and so when the crew is up you have more people in the control centers working, when the crew is awake and working so they had to find a time that worked for ashe, and they chose greenwich time because it allowed the people that worked in the

control center in moscow to utilize the metro system to get to and from work. the metro system is not open all the time. so the time he use on the space station is based on the moscow subway schedule. >> question over here. >> hi there. you mentioned a number of things in your book about that made you feel unsafe, such as the co2 levels or when you were on your space walk, the mike career meteors that chipped away at the handles that could tear your gloves. knowing all of those things would you still feel safe. >> i wouldn't use the word "unsafe." in the business that i was in that has very specific meaning. so, i would have might have said risky. we try to make everything as safe as we possibly can. would i go ben? i'd go right now if there was a rocket outside.

strap me in and send me. it's justifies an -- just an incredible experience and something i really miss. so, yeah, there's risk involved, you see holes on a handrail on the outside of the space station, some like bullet holes and there's other risks involved in living and working in space, but i would do it in a heartbeat again. absolutely. >> hi. just to preface my main question, have you spent more than one year in space. >> not at one time but i've spent 520 days total. >> my main question, how do you see the voyage of people going to mars and spending all that time? how long would that take. and how would they spend that time and how would it feel to those people to spend that whole anytime voyage to mars. >> so it would take -- conventional wisdom and how we would do this today with our current technology, it would take 200 days to get there.

spend a year on the surface, take 200 days approximately to get back, so it's a long time. over two years in space. but the time i spent in space was longer than the people that would have to go to mars, as long as you're not counting the time on mars as space time. you might -- there's i guess reasons you could count that or might not want to, but their experience will be minute different than my experience. for -- i think mostly -- mostly for psychological reasons. on the space station, even though year in space, we're 250 miles away, so from a physic perspective, you're far -- far away from home. it takes dish it's complicated to get back, but vulnerably you seem very close. you could fly over my -- i could

fly over my neighborhood and with a big giant pair of binoculars see my house. so you do feel connected. you have the ability to make a phone call, e-mail, video conferences. when you're going -- when the crew goes to mars some day, they're going to quick lie lose the ability to have a real-time voice conversation with anyone. so you're stuck with recorded messages and e-mail, and then they're not going to have this incredible planet out the window to look at. the sun is always going to be out when they look outside. so it's going to be i think psychologically a much different experience for our first travelers to mars. >> will that be difficult for those voyagers? >> i think you find the right people. i think there's people that can deal with that. absolutely. it would be difficult? sure but that doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't do it. i have to ask. what's that guy on your shirt

there? >> that's -- oh, man -- >> mario. >> mario, what kind of mario? >> a video game. >> all right. that's funny. >> some kind of raccoon kind of thing. >> you need a seven-year-old to tell you what you got on your shirt. you know you're on tv, right? >> i wood to play this video game but a i can't -- some kind of raccoon kind of mario and it can flip around and flips the enemies away with his tale. >> commander kelly, thank you for four service and contributions. [applause] >> as we move from the government and nasa to private enterprise for much of our space program, what -- benefit and what danger/liability do you see.

>> i think the idea of privatizing the space program means different things to different people. you look at nasa putt history -- lochte space shuttle program, for example. rockwell built the space shuttle meaning they cut the metal and turned the wrenches to put this thing together. nasa was very involved in the design and the management of the program, but still a company built the vehicle. nasa didn't build the vehicle. privatization in the idea you're talking about is if we use, like, spacex as the model for that, nasa is still very much involved in -- with spacex in that we give them money, give them requirements, they have to meet those requirements and do it with a certain amount of safety, but then we're kind of out of the -- how do you -- the

design of the rocket to meet those requirements. so when you don't have this big bureaucracy involved in your business, maybe you can do something more efficient, cheaper, hopefully just as safe, and that is kind of what privatization means now when you look at nasa's relationship win spacex as a good example. and then by doing that, nasa could potentially have more money to do other things, like building a rocket for deep space, like the sls or orion going back to the moon or mars some day. so it's a really good partnership, i think, and hopefully once we start flying people on these vehicles, they'll be as safe as we possibly can make them. still be risky but hopefully as safe as we've flown in space previously. the notion of privatizing the space station, which was recently in the news because of the administration's budget, had

2025 we would turn the space station operations over to a private entity. i'm not really sure exactly what that means. part of the space station is already privatizes in the spacex and another company to christopher payload. some of the payloads are privatized. this idea you can take this $100 billion space station that takes a billion dollars a year to operate, to just keep the lights on, and you're going to have some company that would be willing to take over the whole thing and pay the government money, i guess, in billions of dollars to do this, doesn't seem very practical to me. >> thank you. >> two questions. one, how long does it take your body to get accustomed to weightlessness? truck about get eight customed to gravity and some of the medical effects of that and then

the second question is, inning space for a year in close quarters with other people, how do you deal with differences in personalities? you must get -- i know -- i'm sure there's psychological jeaning and all that but how do you deal with that? >> so, adjusting to living in space is a process that occurs the whole time you're there, at least that was my case. i never got -- i never had a day where i would say, i feel exactly like die on earth -- like i do on earth but i say most of that adjustment occurs in the first month. i think once you get past the first month, you're feeling close to as normal as you can feel. which is interesting because if you have flown in space for a short flight, like a couple of weeks, you never really even got there. but it's a process that continues through my whole time

in space. and the things you have to get adjusted to are your vestibular system without gravity pushing on the hairs in your inner ear and your system, you feel like you're tumbling because you really are. you're falling in freefall the whole time you're in space, and this is an effect that causes some people to get sick. usually you get over that in about a week if you get sick. the other things you have to adjust to is just how do you manage yourself and all your stuff when everything floats and that's a skill that takes a long time to really master. meaning like a month or a couple of months. just moving yourself around, that's another way you need to be able to adapt. the second part of your question was -- >> ous about. >> getting along -- >> in coast quarters, dealing with differences in

personalities and disagreements and getting on each other's nerves. >> was go to make a joke but i thought maybe you would believe me. he we just fight it out. no nasa does a good job and international partner does a good job of vetting people when they come into the program. we do background checks on people. we know a lot about them before you send somebody into space to live on the space station for a long time. so, generally the people i go up there are good at dealing with -- first of all, avoiding conflict for one, and then if you have conflict, knowing how to deal with it. i never saw anything that was -- at least personally i've never experienced any kind of conflict where you would have to send each -- two crew membered to their individual corners. >> there were two russians who weren't speaking to each other. >> yeah, there were those guy.

>> would you help we are if the microphone. >> hi. well, like probably other people here, i've met mark few times. this a weird deja vu kind of thing.ment you messengered how you read the book. did you kind of push him into the same field? >> he had a different path than i. he told me recently, couple years ago, how -- when were in the eighth grade our far sat us down and said, okay, you guys are not very good students, we're going to start thinking bat vocational career, education for you, fine. my brother was like, wait a minute, i want to go to college. so he immediately in he ninth grate started getting straight a's and i always wondered what happened. and he told me that -- about this conversation i have no recollection of but a there was -- probably a squirrel running outside in the window.

yes so he did well in high school and did well on the s.a.t.s and went to this place call the u.s. merchant marine academy. so he wound up being ahead of any college by a year, but i caught up eventually. then i passed him. i flew in space first. and i flew in space last. and longest. [laughter] >> i hope he's watching this on c-span. >> okay go ahead. >> is it scary when you were in space? >> so is it scary? there are parts that could be a little scary, like when you're launching on the rocket for the first time, or coming back on the soyuz. coming back on the soyuz could be the most scary thing. when you -- the space shuttle and the soyuz come back the same way you fire an engine and slow down by a few hundred miles an

hour and then the rest of the speed ex-take out with friction in the atmosphere. but in soyuz when the engine cuts off, it's exploded apart and you're in the middle someone the debris is going by the window, and then you hit the storm atmosphere and you see pieces of the heat shield flying by and then your in 3,000-degree fireball and it's like you're staring into the sun which is six inches from your head, gets hot inside. kind of like going over no -- niagra fall in a barrel but your on fire, and then as soon as you know you're going to be okay, it's the funnest thing to do in life. sometimes scary but not too much. >> i want to be an astronaut. >> all right. [applause]

>> do you guys ever accidentally throw up in then have it come back into your mouth? [laughter] >> i think i wrote about that in my book. we're on tv. you don't want to talk about throwing into our mouths. back and forth. >> come over here. >> thank you for coming to talk to us. thank you very much. >> my pleasure. >> i have four quick questions. >> what? >> we only have five minutes so have one so we can get to another question from a child. >> i have four quick answers. >> at weird but here we go.

how close are we in that technology where humans can go into stasis in one. how close are we to artificial gravity, especially inside a ship. >> not an expert on the first thing. like a coma -- >> yes. >> i don't know anything about that other than what i've seen in movies. artificial gravity? i think if we're going to go further than what -- where mars and is be in space much longer than 200 days, like years, going to go to saturn or jupiter, the moons, then artificial gravity would be important. >> and that takes me to the third question. we are probably quite a bit away from "star trek" technology, the enterprise. >> i would agree. >> and fourth and final question, did you see any ufos? did you come cries any alien intelligence in are you willing to tell us what you actually saw

in all classified? did they tell you to bury that information and never tell us? >> what's your question? just kidding. you know, when i became an astronaut in 1996, i thought the first thing they were going to do is give us our astronaut bonus and tell us about the aliens. neither of those happened. i haven't seen any aliens. i was always hoping would open a window shutter in the morning and there would be some alien spaceship hovering outside the window. never happened. i'm sorry. >> when you got chosen for your year in space, what were your first words? >> uh-oh. [laughter] >> actually got chosen for this and then i got pulled off of the flight for, like, 24 hours.

that was disappointing. actually wasn't really interested in flying in space for a year but then he warmed up to the idea, and i was -- i really feel like it's a privilege to have gotten to do that, and i really appreciate the opportunity. but, yeah, it's a -- it's challenge but i was excited about it. >> i think the questions from the kid have been the lest so last take another. >> all right. >> thank you for your talk. so, i watched your pbs documentary and now mentioned that you were taking care of flowers that had kind of been abandoned by your crewmate. is that something you cherished since it was something that was on earth, too? >> so, i had these flowers that i took great care in bringing them back to life, and my crewmates had nothing to do with thisment they kind of died or started to die just because of the time delay in being told

when to water them, when not to water them. but the reason i -- at least initially the reason i got very interested in making these guys come back is that i took a picture of them, i posted it on my twitter or something and some guy, some internet troll saido you're no mark watney. the guy from "the martian." the fight is on after that. i made those flowers as beautiful as they possibly could be. but, yeah issue got attached to them. you don't have plants there, and nature is important. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so, i'm afraid we're out of time. it want to remind you can get your book signed at 4:00. don't leave yet. we're not done yet. i just said we're out of time. you can get your books signed at 4:00 at the u of a book store tent. and you can buy them and want to give the last word to commander

kelly. >> how about this girl. what's your question? >> okay. when -- i'm 12 right now and when you were my age, what did you want to be when you grew up? >> i didn't really know. maybe like doctor. i was pretty -- i think ignorant at the time because i couldn't do any homework ask that's important to become a doctor. but you're not too tall to be an astronaut so don't think about that. you can still do that. so i want to leave you with one final thought. i appreciate you coming. i've been privileged to have this career and it was really a privilege to be able to write this book and share it with everyone. i just want to leave you with a final thought and when i was leaving leaving the space station -- this is a space station i spent 500 days of my life on. i'm looking out the window. this giant truss and i'm thinking we built this thing, our country, and our --

international partners, this thing -- the space station weighs a million pounds. the size of a football field. we built this in a vacuum in extremes of tower muss or minus 270 degrees. with international partnership of 15 countries, different languages and cultures, this is the hardest thing we have ever done and if we can do this, we can do anything. want to good to mars go to mars, cure cancer, put the resources behind it, we can do that. want to fix or problems with the environment the challenges we have, we can do that. challenges in this country, challenges in your lives. after spending a year in space i was absolutely inspired that if we can dream it, we can do it. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. [applause]

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around the world. >> good morning, booklovers. my name is out styles. i am delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savanna book festival. the book festival is presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, the sheehan family foundation and mark and pat. many thanks to jack and mary, our sponsors for this glorious venue, trinity united methodist church. we would also lik