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the last flight of the u.s space shuttle

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is a return visit to the international

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space station for each of the four

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astronauts on board atlantis

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sts-135 is the third station mission for

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retired u.s navy captain chris ferguson

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i was born raised and got to spend you

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know all of my grade school and high

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school years in one place which is which

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was really nice we had close knit

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community

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in northeast philadelphia

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ferguson admits being interested in

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rockets as a kid but not necessarily in

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being an astronaut

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it make made me want to understand

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things that are larger than life

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and i think that's why i wanted to go

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fly for the navy and land a plane on an

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aircraft carrier

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after high school ferguson went downtown

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to drexel university for his bachelor of

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science in mechanical engineering while

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earning his commission through the navy

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rotc program at the university of

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pennsylvania he flew the f-14 tomcat on

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deployment aboard the uss forestall and

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attended the navy's top gun fighter

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weapons school

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earned a masters in aeronautical

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engineering at the naval post graduate

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school

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served as an f-14 weapons separation

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project officer and completed a

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deployment to the western pacific and

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persian gulf aboard the nimitz before

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being selected for the astronaut program

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in 1998 and getting his chance to follow

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in the footsteps of the great explorers

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of the past

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we have a home up there and we're

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destined to be up there and we're

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destined to go beyond low earth orbit

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perhaps set up a colony on the moon and

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go on to mars

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ferguson was the pilot on the 2006

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shuttle mission that delivered the p3 p4

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truss to the international space station

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and commander of a 2008 supply flight

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that delivered one of his current

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crewmates for her long duration mission

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this is the third trip to orbit for dr

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sandy magnus who was born and raised in

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belleville illinois

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medium-sized town

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a lot of family living in the area it

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was really quite a nice place to grow up

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very solid well-grounded community lots

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of very nice people

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i enjoyed it you know we had st louis

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nearby if you want to do big city stuff

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but we were yet a smaller town so we

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didn't have a lot of the big city issues

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and it was a good place to grow up

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as for her interest in becoming an

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astronaut she doesn't really know where

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it came from it's something that caught

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a hold of me

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when i was in middle school believe it

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or not and

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i i've always liked science and

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technology and math it's always been fun

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to learn how the world works and to see

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new things and learn new things and

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there's something about flying in space

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just grabbed a hold of me and didn't let

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university of missouri rolla but

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discovered engineering while she was

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she finished a masters in electrical

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engineering at rolla while she worked

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for mcdonald douglas on airplane design

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and materials until she left for georgia

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tech to get a phd from the school of

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material science and engineering she was

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selected for the astronaut program in

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1996 ready for another new chapter in

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her quest to learn new things we're

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finding interesting things about the

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virulency of

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some diseases we're finding interesting

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things about how materials operate we

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find interesting things about just fluid

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fluid dynamics and all these little

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pieces of information

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can be used here on the ground to create

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things that can help people or

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technology that can they can do new

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magnus operated the space station's

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robot arm during the 2002 shuttle

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mission that delivered the s-1 trust to

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the space station and returned in late

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2008 to start a four and a half month

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tour of duty as a flight engineer on

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expedition 18.

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sts-135 is also the third space flight

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for retired air force colonel rex

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walheim of northern california born in

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redwood city and raised in san carlos

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it's a town of about 30 000 people south

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of san francisco it's a great place to

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grow up uh pretty normal middle america

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football and

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i had a great support structure a

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wonderful mother and father that

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going down the right path for school and

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his interest in the space program grew

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out of a love of flying and he got that

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from his dad

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my father was a

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b-17 pilot during the world war ii era

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so he was a pilot and he loved flying

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and so he used to take us to air shows

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and i think there's something about a

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flying that sometimes runs in the blood

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and so that's something that's passed on

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from my dad to me

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with a bachelor's in mechanical

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engineering from uc berkeley the rotc

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student headed straight for air force

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pilot training but a diagnosis of a

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heart murmur ended that ambition and he

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set his sights on becoming a flight test

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engineer

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after an assignment as a missile warning

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operations crew commander walheim was

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transferred to the johnson space center

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in houston for a tour as a mechanical

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systems flight controller he also earned

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a master's in industrial engineering at

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the university of houston and then on to

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a management job at air force space

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command headquarters

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when he was accepted for the flight test

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engineer course at test pilot school

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doctors told him he did not have a heart

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murmur so his goal of becoming an

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astronaut re-emerged

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walheim served as a flight test engineer

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and in management jobs with the f-16

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combined task force at edwards air force

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base and then as an air force test pilot

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school instructor before being picked as

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an astronaut in 1996 and getting the

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chance to make a lifelong dream come

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it's important to to keep pushing our

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boundaries just like the pioneers in the

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old days pushed the boundaries and went

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farther west and we're learning about

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our earth we're learning about how the

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human body adapts to space and and we're

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learning all sorts of ways

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processes behave in space that are

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wallheim did two spacewalks on the 2002

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shuttle mission that installed the

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center section of the station's

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integrated truss structure and three

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more evas on the 2008 flight that

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delivered the columbus laboratory module

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marine colonel doug hurley is making his

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second space flight on sts-135

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he was born in the small upstate new

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york town of endicott and grew up next

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door in appalachian it was just a

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wonderful place to grow up it was a very

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small town it was fairly rural

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i had a lot of close friends played

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downhill skied

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did all the things that i think you know

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most folks from that part of the country

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do and and really enjoyed it he

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remembers being interested in space

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flight but never set himself a goal of

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becoming an astronaut i think it was

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just a natural progression of things

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being interested in engineering being

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interested in

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in aviation in space and it just kind of

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led me down a path

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into college in the military and then

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the marine corps flying fighters and

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be lucky enough to get to come here

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hurley went to tulane on a navy rotc

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scholarship graduating with a bachelor's

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in civil engineering he took his

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commission in the marine corps completed

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the basic school and flight school and

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made three deployments to the western

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pacific in an f-18 squadron

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when his commanding officers encouraged

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him to do so hurley applied to and was

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accepted at the navy test pilot school

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he served in an f-18 test squadron for

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more than two years and became the first

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marine to fly the f-18 super hornet

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before being picked to become an

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astronaut in 2000

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hurley was the pilot on a 2009 shuttle

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flight that delivered components of the

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japanese section of the international

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space station and he's eager for the

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start of the next era of human space

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flight that begins after the final wheel

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stop of the space shuttle program let's

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explore the moon let's explore an

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asteroid let's explore mars

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space flight that that really is

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exciting and just to see what's over

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that next bend and around that next