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shuttle endeavour's final flight has

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is the fourth trip to the international

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space station for u.s navy captain mark

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kelly tying the record for the most

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kelly was born in orange new jersey and

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grew up in west orange as a young boy

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watching the apollo moon landings he

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thought about becoming an astronaut but

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as he got older it seemed out of the

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after high school kelly won an

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appointment to the u.s merchant marine

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academy with a plan for a career at sea

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then he made a trip on a grain carrier

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going from seattle to a place called

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savage egypt it's in the southern part

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of egypt on the red sea

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getting across the pacific that ship

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went 12 knots

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to get across the pacific ocean and get

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us to singapore and i thought oh this is

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so that's when i started thinking about

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flying airplanes in the navy

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when he finished his bachelor's degrees

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in marine engineering and marine

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transportation at the academy kelly took

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his commission and went to the navy

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flight school he made two deployments

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during operation desert storm and flew

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earned a master of science in

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aeronautical engineering at the navy

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postgraduate school and then went to the

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navy test pilot school where the

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astronaut bug bit him again you know

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being a test pilot is fun you get to

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test new things and sometimes fly new

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airplanes and the space shuttle you know

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still more or less in a test program

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even though we've been flying it for

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nearly 30 years now so it's like the

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ultimate test pilot job

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kelly was an instructor at test pilot

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school when he was picked for the

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astronaut corps in 1996.

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kelly was the pilot on shuttle mission

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sts-108 in 2001 and the second return to

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flight test mission in 2006 and he

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commanded the 2008 flight that delivered

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the kibo laboratory module

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air force colonel mike fink has been to

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the station twice before for a year on

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two long duration missions and he'll set

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a new record for time spent in space by

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an american at the end of this flight

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fink was born in pittsburgh pennsylvania

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and grew up in the suburb of emsworth

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i was the oldest of nine kids we didn't

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have a lot of money but we're still able

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to spend time in planetariums and the

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museums and the science centers that are

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benefit and blessing to be able to

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a private high school

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i had to work on the weekends to make it

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happen but the school made it work too

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and i had a great excellent education in

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high school

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studying science and math and all the

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things that really excited me

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fink won an air force rotc scholarship

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to mit where he earned bachelor's

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degrees in aeronautics and astronautics

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and earth atmospheric and planetary

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sciences

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that summer he attended an exchange

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program with the moscow aviation

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institute before heading to stanford for

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a masters in aeronautics and

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astronautics

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then he started an abbreviated career as

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a fighter pilot and it turns out after

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six or seven months

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the air force and i both agreed that i

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wasn't going to be the god's gift to to

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aviation that i thought it was going to

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be and i wasn't destined to become a

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fighter pilot so i washed out of pilot

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fink found his niche as an engineer and

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then a flight test engineer attending

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the air force test pilot school and

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serving at posts in southern california

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and later in japan but he never gave up

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his childhood dream

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watching people walk on the moon

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and i knew right then and there that's

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something i wanted to do

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fink was selected as an astronaut in

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he spent six months as flight engineer

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on the international space station's

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expedition 9 in 2004 and performed four

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expedition 18 and performed two more

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one of his crewmates from that flight is

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dr greg shamitoff was born in montreal

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canada and had a father he describes as

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a space fanatic

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chamothof remembers watching star trek

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as a little boy and being intrigued but

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then we went on a family vacation to

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florida and it was the time of apollo

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11. so we got to see the launch of

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apollo 11 on a family vacation there i

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i wanted to do that and never changed my

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the family moved to the united states

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and settled in san jose california when

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chamitov was 11. he graduated from high

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school there and went to cal poly in san

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luis obispo to study physics

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the launch of the first space shuttle

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mission during his freshman year changed

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his focus and i just remember so vividly

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being in the dormitory you know people

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gathered to watch this the first flight

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do this all my life but there wasn't uh

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there yet wasn't any um

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urgency or sense of direction you know

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of how to do it

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as soon as that happened i said i got

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called asa and asked him what i have to

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when he got interested in robots he

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changed his major and earned a bachelor

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of science in electrical engineering at

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cal poly then a masters in aeronautical

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engineering at caltech

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on a fellowship at draper laboratory in

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cambridge massachusetts shemitoff worked

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on spacecraft guidance controls for

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several nasa projects while earning his

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doctorate in aeronautics and

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astronautics at mit

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then he taught aeronautical engineering

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at the university of sydney before he

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came to work at the johnson space center

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in 1995 developing software applications

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he was picked for the astronaut corps in

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1998 and spent 183 days in space as part

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of the space station's expedition 17 and

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italian air force colonel roberto

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vittori of the european space agency has

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international space station but he spent

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my school i was

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he left bomarzo for college to study

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physics but his boyhood interest in

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flying reasserted itself

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vittori earned a bachelor's degree in

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aeronautical science at the italian air

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force academy and completed his basic

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pilot training with the u.s air force at

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reese air force base in texas and then

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school and a post-graduation trip with

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his classmates to visit nasa all my

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colleagues american colleagues were

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thinking about becoming an astronaut and

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it's not that easy to have opportunities

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working as a test pilot in italy he put

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in an application when the italian space

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agency was looking for astronauts he was

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selected and became a european space

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agency astronaut and trained as a member

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of the 1998 class of astronauts at

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nasa's johnson space center

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vettori flew to the international space

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station on a soyuz taxi flight in 2002

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and then on a 10-day science flight in

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he later served as an italian air force

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liaison officer and completed master's

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degrees in aeronautical sciences at the

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university of naples and in physics at

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the university of perugia

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united kingdom and raised all over the

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during a family visit to his

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grandparents in traverse city michigan

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when they all watched the apollo 11 moon

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landing i was seven my brother was nine

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we um were amazed and i said wow that

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i'd love to be an astronaut so that was

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kind of the bit that was set way back

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johnson graduated from high school in

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fairborn ohio and went to the air force

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academy to become a pilot and an

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after graduating with a bachelor of

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science in aeronautical engineering and

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earning a masters in flight structures

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engineering at columbia johnson was

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assigned to reese air force base as a

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pilot and then a pilot instructor

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he flew combat missions in operations

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desert storm and southern watch before

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attending the air force test pilot

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school which rejuvenated the engineer in

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him and made him think about his

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childhood dream of becoming an astronaut

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like to hire test pilots because each

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shuttle mission really is a test flight

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and so i went ahead and threw my name in

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the hat johnson was selected by nasa in

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1998 earned an mba from the university

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of texas at austin in 2005 and piloted

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the 2008 shuttle flight that delivered

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the first components of japan's kibo

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laboratory complex

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dr drew feustel's first space flight got

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him nowhere near the international space

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station but he got up close to something

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that none of his crewmates has ever seen

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and being a suburb of detroit motor city

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i became interested in automobiles at an

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early age

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feustel raced motorcycles and go-karts

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as a boy and he had cars in mind after

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high school when he went to oakland

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community college specializing in

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geology with a minor in industrial

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design so you could say i was pursuing

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two careers one is a scientist one is an

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automotive designer while working as an

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automotive restoration mechanic

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after he finished his associate's degree

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he went to purdue for a bachelor's in

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solid earth sciences and a master's in

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geophysics and was the team cart driver

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for his fraternity

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and then he earned a phd in geological

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sciences at queen's university in

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kingston ontario he worked as a

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geophysicist in canada and then for

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exxon mobil exploration in houston

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before he was picked as an astronaut in

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2000 feustel completed three spacewalks

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during the final servicing mission to

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the hubble space telescope in 2009

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i think for humans it's always been

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about what's out there are we alone

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could we be the only ones in this

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infinite universe and i think the only

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way we're going to find out is if we

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keep pushing the boundary and trying to