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one of the reasons that i love the space

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program is because i think

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we as human beings are explorers by

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nature and i think it's so essential to

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to our culture and our experience as

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human beings to be exploring things that

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have not been explored before

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i think space really is the last

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frontier and i think it's something

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within the human spirit that's so

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exciting about going someplace we

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haven't been before

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don't ever limit yourself if i had to

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tell if somebody told me that i could

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never be at nasa because of i'm not

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smart enough whatever else

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i think that's a false belief because

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actually i'm from ethiopia

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you know i remember when i was

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eight years old

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looking at the sky even just leaving the

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country was a dream

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uh but the the point is i never stopped

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believing i always focused on my dreams

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uh but

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in the end you know i never gave up that

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dream and i kept working hard

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i actually never dreamed of coming to

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nasa

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i almost didn't even know anybody had

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ever gone to college growing up so it

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wasn't something that i thought i would

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end up at um it was more of that when i

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started going to school i really

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loved

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learning and

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i had parents that even though they

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hadn't gone to college

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really loved learning and and pushed me

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to do as much as i could and so i worked

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really hard in high school and ended up

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getting a scholarship where they pay for

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me to go to school and once i was in

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school and i started looking at jobs i

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realized that nasa hired

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normal people

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before i always thought that geniuses

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only came to work at nasa and so

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when i realized that it was something

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that i could actually do

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that's where i thought you know what

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this is somewhere i'd want to work this

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is somewhere where i would go home every

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day and be excited and proud of what i

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did

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it's about being incremental that it's

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about getting through junior high and

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then getting through high school and

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applying to go to college and getting

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through college and then considering

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going to graduate school or get to go

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and do a technical job or come directly

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out here and work through an internship

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that it's all these incremental steps

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the people out here are as incredible

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as i'd always imagined that they would

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be

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but but what i tell people is that

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you can be one of those people you can

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be one of the folks that works out here

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that's just as smart and just as well

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respected and it's all about setting

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your sight on what the next goal is and

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then attaining it and and it's as simple

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as that it's going out working hard and

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making it happen and it's a rewarding

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way to go through life

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i believe the space program demonstrates

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the best of what humans are capable of

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and we're capable of more than we ever

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imagined

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and the more we explore and learn about

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the world around us the more we learn

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when i look out at the stars and i look

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out at the moon it just makes me wonder

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what's out there and i i think what we

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do here at nasa is

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we explore we find out what's out there

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and

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that that is that's such a

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great thing it's not only motivational

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and inspirational but there's been so

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many contributions from the work that

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nasa has done that has benefited not

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only american life but

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what i try not to tell students is that

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everybody has to work for nasa i i or

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that everybody has to you know be a

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mathematician what i encourage students

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to do is to

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not

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truly

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passion for it

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in whatever endeavor that you do to make

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sure that you like it

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i loved math and science i loved

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engineering and i love what i do and it

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may or may not work for everybody

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but give it a chance you know don't be