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hi i'm astronaut mike massimino earlier

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this year i flew aboard space shuttle

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atlantis to the hubble space telescope

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my crewmates and i spent more than two

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years training for that mission and now

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another crew is getting ready to fly on

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atlantis and they're going to the

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international space station

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they've been working hard to get ready

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for their flight and they've let us

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follow them around for the past few

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weeks with a camera we're about to show

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you some of that footage and you're

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gonna get an up close view of the crew

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go inside their training and hear some

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of the stories from the astronauts and

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their team

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this is sts 129 behind the scenes and we

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let me tell you this one story

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how you can um

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you never know how you might impact

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somebody's life yeah i uh i wanted to

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play football from the time i was a

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little bitty kid

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and uh my parents

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they were already driving me and my

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brother all over the place they're like

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wait till you're in junior high when

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you're in junior high you can play

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football

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so

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sixth grade the spring of my sixth grade

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year was spring practice for the junior

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high football team so i rode the bus i

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stayed on my bus it would have dropped

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me off at home eventually by sixth grade

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and i rode it to the junior high because

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they got out later than us and i would

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get off the bus there and i was going to

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football practice so we go practice and

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just regular clothes for the first three

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days and it's time for the cuts

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and how they cut was they put everybody

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in the bleachers in the gym

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old gym that was like the previously i

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think this school was built in like the

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1400s i mean it was old and uh

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got us up on the on the bleachers and

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they would bring you down get you in a

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suit and when the suits were done if you

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were still sitting you were cut

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so i've been wanting to play football

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all my life

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and

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there was like eight of us still sitting

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there and i had been cut

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the coach comes out and goes okay for

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you guys who didn't get a suit if you

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want to stay out and keep going through

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practice through the drills and just in

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your shorts and t-shirt you are welcome

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staff

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so i think of those eight or so there

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were six of us that did we went out

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practice and that's pretty good a week

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and a half goes by

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and uh i'm finally the only one left i

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want to play football so the rest of

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those kids

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dropped out finally drop down and i'm

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the only guy that's still out there in

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shorts and a t-shirt while everybody

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else is in pads

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so finally

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after a week and a half of this coach

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martin

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i look like beaver from the leave at the

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beaver show so my nickname was bieber

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he goes little beaver

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you come with me we're going to get you

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a uniform

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so we go down into the bowels of this

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gym i mean it's like a dungeon down

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there i mean there's water dripping it's

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dark i expected to turn a corner see a

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skeleton you know it was it was i mean

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like oh anyway in the bowels of this gym

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he goes and he finds me a uniform he

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found me these old red pads that were

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very too small for me even as a sixth

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grader i think they were made out of

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leather like like literally the

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thirdness

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these huge extra large pants with extra

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large thigh pads i mean the pants were

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enormous and then the helmet he finds is

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a helmet and remember back in the 40s

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they had these helmets with like we call

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them elephant ears yeah yeah yeah yeah

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see red grange playing with them exactly

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yeah so we weren't alive back then of

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course but we've seen the pictures i did

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have a bar

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one single bar

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for a face mask so i got these huge

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pants little bitty shoulder pads an

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elephant ear helmet but boy i was

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playing with

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something i wanted to do and and the

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reason i tell this story is coach martin

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at the time had no idea but it made a

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huge impact on my life because i wound

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up playing football from there through

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high school i played football in college

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opened up a lot of doors i learned a

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great deal from that team sport that i

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would have never had the opportunity to

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learn if coach martin had to say look

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ahead and said little baby let's get you

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some pads

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so coach martin doesn't even know this

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i'm sure but i mean it just i think back

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to that and he didn't realize it but he

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just opened up a lot of doors a lot of

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opportunities for a little bitty kid and

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he didn't even realize so you never know

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how you're going to impact somebody's

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life

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based on things that you do for them or

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things that are benefiting them so

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that's why i thought yeah but the thing

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too is which i mean it's he gave the

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opportunity the kids to keep playing but

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you also took it i mean

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i would give you a little bit of credit

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for the kids out there you know it's not

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just when people give you the

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opportunity like that even though it

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might not be handed to you the way you'd

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like you know if you that you learn more

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from getting cut initially that if you

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were to beauty guy right on that team

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right away you probably wouldn't have

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you never know how things might have

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turned out you know one moment we got

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work to do

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one second you know the one thing though

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is uh for football i was small

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and i was slow and i was weak

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but i had determination i was determined

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you know because i wanted to play so

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determination go a long way

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and you think that helped you as a in

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college navy