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Just an important milestone as well. you heard pia, her chief of staff, talk about that. and also that she's completely aware that her husband mark kelly is going into space in april. now, that awareness to understand, and his ability to express yourself. such an important milestone. >> why is it so difficult after a brain injury to speak. and how is it possible then to be able to relearn the ability to do it? >> it's a good question. let me just show you on this brain model if i can for a second. you know, one of the things that's important is that different parts of the brain do different th...

Examined her for a half hour and won't say it is an attempt to speak. her husband said she is trying. do you have a guess? >> if you look at this brain model, everything in the brain is location. speech production would be more far forward. speech understanding would be in this area. we know from the fact that she can follow commands that speech understanding seems to be fine. because she has a breathing tube in her neck, that doesn't allow speaking we don't know if speech production is intact. one of the next moves will be transitioning that trak yoft me to what we call a talking trak. we wil...