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the new members of the international

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space station's expedition 36 crew come

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from three different countries but share

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a common trait

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each has wanted to fly in space since

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childhood

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fjordier yurchikhin was born and raised

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in the black sea port city of batumi in

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soviet georgia growing up in a time and

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place where all the children wanted to

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be cosmonauts where the winners of kids

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games were called gagarins

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your chicken wanted to be a part of that

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life even if he couldn't be a dashing

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test pilot

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what reason i understood maybe

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in this day in this time then

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it's maybe in my health it's not enough

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to be a cost model but what is more

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important for me be a pilot or be in

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engineer in space program of course

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the space program it was

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too important for me so after high

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school yurchikhin went to the moscow

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aviation institute earned a bachelor's

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degree in mechanical engineering

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specializing in aerospace vehicles and

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went straight to work for the rocket

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space corporation inergia as an engineer

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he worked as a flight controller and

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when he became lead engineer for the mir

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shuttle program he spent time at nasa's

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johnson space center supporting that

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effort yurchikhin was selected as an

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inergia cosmonaut in 1997 and earned a

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phd in economics at moscow service state

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university while preparing for his first

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space flight he was a member of the

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sts-112 crew that delivered a piece of

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the station's starboard truss during

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expedition 5 in 2002

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he returned five years later on a soyuz

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spacecraft as commander of expedition 15

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and made three spacewalks and followed

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that with two more evas as a station

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flight engineer on expeditions 24 and 25

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he believes the station program is

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paying off in the things we're learning

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while making the effort from improving

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the spacecraft themselves to the tools

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we develop

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but the first big exactly great sensor

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for digital community it was factory for

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this program and now it's usual for

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everybody it's usual for my daughters

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it's usual for young boys and girls i

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know my profession it's very important

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italian air force major luca parmitano

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is from sicily born in paterno and

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raised in catania in the shadow of mount

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aetna

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although he was very young when he saw

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the first space shuttles fly on

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television he was captivated by the idea

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of what those images represented

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so i remember seeing that the first

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astronauts floating around

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around the space shuttle doing doing

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and i think that even in a kid as smart

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as i was i i just thought that must be

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the greatest job in the world to be able

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to do those things and

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and and call it a living

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so since then i i had this dream of

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becoming an astronaut parmitano won a

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scholarship to spend a year of high

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school in southern california in that

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year in america he not only intensified

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his desire to be a pilot by living with

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a host family in which the father was a

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marine navigator

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but he met the girl who years later

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would become his wife

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back in italy parmitano earned a

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bachelor's degree in political sciences

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at the university of naples and

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graduated from italy's air force academy

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then completed his basic training at the

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euro nato joint jet pilot training

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program at shepherd air force base in

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texas

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after six years with a fighter squadron

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in italy he was sent to france to train

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as a test pilot and earned a masters in

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experimental flight test engineering at

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the superior institute of aeronautics

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and space in toulouse in 2009 the same

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year he was selected for astronaut

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training by the european space agency

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now he's making his childhood dream a

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reality and fulfilling a desire to push

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the boundaries of human knowledge

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that's who we are that's what makes us

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humans

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that is what makes us

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different from all from the rest of the

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of the animal kingdom and if we don't

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follow our of our nature of being

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explorators of being thinkers then we

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are denying a part of ourselves that is

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incredibly important

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dr karen nyberg was part of a big family

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growing up in the tiny town of vining

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minnesota and from the time she was a

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very young girl she knew she wanted to

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be an astronaut although she doesn't

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know why

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she learned some solitary pursuits as a

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little girl

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i've been sewing my mom taught me to sew

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when i was probably five or six years

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i've been drawing since i was also that

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age i used to i would never sit in front

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of the television just sitting there

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watching tv i always had a piece of

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paper and a pencil and was drawing or

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doodling or doing something

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but she took advantage of being in a

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small town to join more school

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activities than most kids in big city

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schools join

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i was on the basketball team the

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volleyball team the track team i took

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stats for the baseball team i was in the

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choir i was in the band i was in the

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drama club i was able to participate in

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all of them

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learn to be a team member

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she went to the university of north

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dakota to study engineering and learned

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about a program that lets students work

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at nasa's johnson space center in

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houston

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while finishing her bachelor's in

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mechanical engineering in grand forks

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and while starting her graduate work at

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the university of texas at austin

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after she finished a master's and a

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doctorate in mechanical engineering in

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austin she returned to jsc working

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full-time in the crew and thermal

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systems division for two years before

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she was picked for the astronaut program

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in 2000 where she met her future husband

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fellow astronaut candidate doug hurley

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nyberg was part of the sts-124 space

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shuttle crew that delivered the kibo

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laboratory module and japanese robotic

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arm to the international space station

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in 2008 and was the first person to ever

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operate the shuttle robotic arm the main

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station arm and the japanese arm she's

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confident this mission will appeal to

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the adventure seeker in today's kids i

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think a lot of it is based just on human

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nature that we are all very curious

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people