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the next crew headed for the

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international space station is made up

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of three small town boys who all grew up

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with dreams of flying

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retired air force colonel kevin ford is

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a product of northeastern indiana the

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youngest of six kids was born in

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portland raised in montpelier and

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graduated high school in hartford city

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he was 14 when his oldest brother gave

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him his first ride in a small plane and

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ford was hooked on flying

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i

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happened to

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to have a grocery in my town who had his

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own airplane and so he was really

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willing to give me a job

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give me all the hours i needed to pay

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for flying lessons ford already had his

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pilot's license when he finished high

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school and went to notre dame as an air

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force rotc student he graduated with a

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bachelor's of science in aerospace

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engineering did his air force pilot

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training at columbus air force base in

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mississippi and was assigned to an f-15

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squadron in germany it was 84 to 87 so

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kind of the height of the cold war kind

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of kind of time never saw myself in the

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future flying in a soyuz at that point

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i'll tell you that

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then it was a fighter interceptor

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squadron in iceland while finishing his

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master of science degree in

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international relations from troy state

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before being selected for the air force

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test pilot school

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ford earned a master of science in

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aerospace engineering at the university

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of florida while flying as a test pilot

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at eglin air force base

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and then he took a three-year assignment

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to complete a doctorate in astronautical

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engineering from the air force institute

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of technology he served as an instructor

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at the air force test pilot school

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before being selected as an astronaut in

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2000 and did a tour as nasa's director

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of operations in star city russia before

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making his first trip to the

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international space station as the pilot

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on a 2009 shuttle supply flight during

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expedition 20.

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ford is a supporter of robotic

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exploration beyond low earth orbit but i

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think that the human the emotional

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connection comes about because

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we we see ourselves out there we project

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ourselves out there and and we really

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want to go explore on our own

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have a look with our own eyes

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russian air force colonel oleg novitskiy

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is from chervin a small town near minsk

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in what is now the republic of belarus

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when i was a kid i remember looking into

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the dark sky with stars and it was like

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a magnet after i grew up i realized that

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it's not as easy

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to become a cosmonaut so i picked the

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shortest route that meant becoming a

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military pilot

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after high school he entered the boroso

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glebs military pilot school but when the

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military reformed itself after the fall

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of the soviet union he moved to the

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kachin flight school and graduated with

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a specialization in command tactical

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aviation

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after that

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i also studied

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about one year

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and in 1995

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hopefully to mars

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russian air force lieutenant colonel

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evgeny tarelkin is the son of a military

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pilot and a military doctor he was born

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in pervomeski in the cheetah region in

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southeastern siberia but lived all over

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the country

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in his desire to become a pilot he made

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his first parachute jump at the age of

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the system work

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i added

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sand to my pockets to my boots

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and so i did come to weigh 50 kilos so i

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went ahead and i jumped tarelkin

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graduated from high school in

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tchaikovsky near star city spent time at

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a military academy in menino graduated

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from the isc air force pilot school and

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then the yuri gagarin military academy

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with a specialty in air transport

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operations and air traffic management

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his first job was at the gagarin

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cosmonaut training center as a flight

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test engineer training cosmonauts in

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survival skills and as luck would have

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it parachuting

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being that close to the cosmonauts got

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him thinking

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i could do that

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i thought i was ready i felt prepared i

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and i thought that maybe i'll make more

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contribution as part of the cosmonaut

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corps

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after almost four years training

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cosmonauts including zero gravity

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training in aircraft and underwater

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tarelkin was selected to join the

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cosmonaut core himself in 2003 and take

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on a new role in the effort to explore

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beyond earth orbit

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there's a low

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earth orbit stage is really necessary

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but we need to look forward and uh

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to think about uh

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flying to

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stars to other planets maybe meet