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expedition 27 is the first long-duration

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russian air force colonel dmitry

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his early childhood growing up in south

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irkutsk it's a siberian city

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nearby lake baikal

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my parents moved from that city to

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another one to namaste beerus also

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one big

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siberian city when i was one month old

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kandrativ's family was living in

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ama'athi then the capital of kazakhstan

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by the time he was a teenager he

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completed pilot training before his high

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school graduation and then attended the

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kaczynski air force pilot school in

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volgograd and graduated as a pilot

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engineer

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quadratic flew fighters in the soviet

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and then russian air force for seven

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years before his selection as a

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cosmonaut in 1997.

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for me

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a military pilot and i flew

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planes and the next step for me it's

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it's it's natural

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to fly to space

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while completing basic space training at

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the gagarin cosmonaut training center

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kondratyev also earned his qualification

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as an economist from the moscow state

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university for economy statistics and

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information technology he later

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graduated from the yuri gagarin air

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force academy

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khadrati have trained as a backup crew

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member for two international space

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station missions and on the prime crew

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for expedition 13 before a crew

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reassignment and served a year as the

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russian space agency's director of

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operations at the johnson space center

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in houston he's also earned his u.s

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private pilot's license and airline

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transport pilot's license while getting

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ready for his first flight in space

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i think

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people will be

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on almost every planet

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in our solar system there is no

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choice for human

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human beings for people

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to fly to the to the flight of space

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paolo nespoli is a native of milan italy

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and grew up in nearby verano brianza he

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first dreamed of flying in space as a

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boy when he saw astronauts walk on the

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moon as he got older he found he had an

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interest in how things worked i was

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decent in the scientific area i was able

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to use my hands understanding

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mechanics and taking everything apart as

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my father and mother was saying and

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putting together having some leftovers

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you know this kind of stuff

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drafted into the italian army at age 20

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parachute instructor in pisa then a

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special forces operator in livorno and

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spent two years as part of italy's

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contribution to a multinational

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peacekeeping force in lebanon in the mid

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i learned in that period that with

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enough training enough knowledge the

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right equipment and the right

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psychological disposition you can do

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almost everything almost anything almost

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the dream of going in space came back

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so nespoli retired from active duty to

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complete a bachelor of science in

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aerospace engineering and a master's in

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aeronautics and astronautics both at the

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polytechnic university of new york

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he returned to italy as a design and

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an astronaut training engineer in 1991.

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he worked in space flight training at

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the johnson space center before becoming

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an astronaut himself

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nespoli was chosen by the italian space

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agency in 1998 and joined the esa

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astronaut corps a month later

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2000 class of astronaut candidates at

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jsc and then trained on the soyuz

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spacecraft in star city prior to his

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2007 space shuttle mission that

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delivered the italian-built harmony node

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to the international space station which

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he sees as a tool to help us move out

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of magnitude of effort

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or complexity then go into the moon and

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fairfax virginia she had some ideas

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about what she wanted to do with her

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life i was interested in being in the

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military i was interested in science i

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just a little bit more

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intercollegiate crew team and an rotc

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student while earning her bachelor's

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degree in chemistry she credits a visit

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to the college by astronaut sally ride

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with inspiring her to think about

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becoming an astronaut

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time she was also

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somebody that was helping to

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explore the universe and she got to

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scuba dive all these things that i loved

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to have met her that day

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air force after graduation coleman began

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university of massachusetts she

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continued her work as a research chemist

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while on active duty and earned a phd in

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polymer science and engineering from

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umass the year before she was selected

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as an astronaut in 1992

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coleman spent almost 16 days in space on

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the second u.s microgravity laboratory

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mission in 1995 and was at the controls

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in 1999 to deploy the chandra x-ray

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kind of science she believes the

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international space station will support

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measure and compare but the fact that we

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can do science experiments up in space

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and we can do it safely or as safe as we

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possibly can then we should go there and

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leningrad and grew up with a great

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desire to read especially science

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fiction about space by the most popular

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kids just like me who wanted to become

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aviation cosmonautics

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was nowhere and the more i learned

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was something i want to dedicate my life

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after graduating from a high school

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specializing in physics and mathematics

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military mechanical institute and earned

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a degree in the dynamics and control of

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he spent two years as an engineer with a

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military unit before transferring to the

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rocket space corporation energia as a

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specialist in the motion control systems

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of the mir space station

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1999 and was leading the shift the day

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he then became a shift flight director

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mission control in corioloff and was

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help open the way to space for everyone

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individuals but so that every human

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russian air force colonel alexander

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of moscow he recalls his kindergarten

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class receiving the gift of a replica of

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the spacecraft that carried yuri gagarin

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professional hockey academy but after

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high school he chose to pursue his dream

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russian air force he graduated from the

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gagarin air force academy in 2000 and

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training center as a division chief

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heights for our race perhaps sometime in

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the future we will be able to find some

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other human beings some other life out

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ron garan was born and raised in yonkers

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had a big family party and you know at

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what he would do since the u.s wasn't

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engineering from the university of

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florida

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garen attended the navy test pilot

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school and was operations officer of the

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40th flight test squadron when he was

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selected as an astronaut in 2000

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he made his first space flight on the

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shuttle mission that delivered the kibo

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laboratory module to the international

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space station in 2008 and retired from

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the air force as a colonel in 2009 a

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very important aspect of the research

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that we're doing onboard the space

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station is basically to learn how we can

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live for

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longer and longer periods of time and

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space to get farther and farther away

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from the earth so that we could reach

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out and do all the exploration that we

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want to do in the future but the other

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part of the research which is equally as