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MALE SPEAKER: Frank, Jerome is asking, how do you feel in
orbit after several months?
FRANK DE WINNE: Well as you can see, Jerome, I'm feeling
just great.
Floating in orbit is just nice.
You can very nicely stay always in equilibrium after a
couple of months.
In the beginning, you're kind of going like
all over the place.
And now, it just seems so relaxing.
So life is great here.
The food is good.
The company is good.
I have a fantastic crew.
And also, the work is great.
We do a lot of scientific work, also a lot of
maintenance.
So I'm having a good time here on orbit.
MALE SPEAKER: Karina wants to know, how much time does the
crew spend working outside the space station?
FRANK DE WINNE: Well Karina, actually, the crew spends
little time working outside the space station, because
it's very dangerous.
If you go outside as well, you need to have one of those, a
space suit.
And it's very difficult to maintain the space suit.
It takes a lot of work.
But it's also very hard to work inside of them.
So therefore, we try to spend as least time as possible
outside of the space station.
This is why we use a lot of robotics tasks, for example.
It's what I did with the HDV and the experiments that we
based outside of the Japanese module, Kibo.
We only used robotics means to do that, and
that worked just fine.