GNS: Here we are, Rita Trevalyan with the Global News Service interviewing another member of the Famous doughty Proserpinan Exploratory Mission team training to take off next month for that mysterious dark planet. Nadyezhka Politovna of Russia. How are you today, Dr. Politovna?
NP: I fine, very healthy. Please to call me Nadyezhka. Moi mother Dr. Politkovna.
GNS: Your mother must be very proud, and father too, to have two doctors in the family. Wow!
NP: My mother physician for littles I am humble PhD. Big difference.
GNS: Your mother is a pediatrician?
NP: Da.
GNS: What is your field of expertise?
NP: I in charge of hydroponics. You know on ship there will be hydroponic plants. They scrub air and provide food better than most space food. Fresh food. Very healthy.
GNS: That will be very good. You have a green thumb as they say?
NP: Da, I have green thumb. Been growing things since I little one.
GNS: Is the rest of the team easy to get along with?
NP: Oh, da! All of us have as you say pleasing personalities, especially the Brazilian. She most pleasing to me.
GNS: Oho! Have we picked up the germ of a romance stirring in the team?
NP: I know not. Too early to tell.
GNS: These plants all look very healthy.
NP: I feed them many nutrients besides water. Have strawberry. [hands reporter strawberry]
GNS: [eats strawberry] Mmm. Delicious.
NP: I grow many things one would not think could be grown hydroponically.
GNS: Stay tuned next week, same bat time, same bat channel when we’ll have a chat with yet another member of this intrepid team.
