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the members of the international space

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station crew all believe that their

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six-month mission is an important part

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of the work that's needed to help human

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beings continue to explore well beyond

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pavel vinogradov was born in the far

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eastern russian town of magadam and grew

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up in the even farther eastern town of

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anodier just 500 miles across the bering

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sea from gnome alaska

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climate is very harsh eight months of

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winter lots of snow and ice but i love

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it i enjoy it

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after a childhood spent dreaming of

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becoming a pilot vinogradov left the new

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deer after high school for the moscow

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aviation institute he earned a degree in

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rocket booster design then taught and

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did research at the institute while

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earning a second degree in computer

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systems and systems analysis vinogradov

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joined the design bureau of the rocket

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space corporation in nergia in 1983 and

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baron shuttle and other inergia vehicles

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before being selected to inerkia's

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cosmonaut corps in 1992

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he logged 198 days in space as the board

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engineer on mir 24 and made five

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spacewalks to repair mir after a

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progress freighter punched a hole in it

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in the summer of 1997. he made one more

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spacewalk in 2006 as commander of the

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international space station's expedition

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13. a 183-day mission that restored the

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station's crew complement to three

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he believes today's space exploration

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efforts bear comparison to the sea

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voyages of the great explorers in the

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who were exploring

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did not know what that they will

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discover america in four months for

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the risks were great

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we as those explorers we need to explore

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retired russian air force lieutenant

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colonel alexander misurkin is a product

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of western russia born in yershi-chi in

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the smalensk region and raised a couple

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of hundred miles away in oriole he calls

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his childhood a typical one and says

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even as a young boy he wanted to go

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places no one had been to before

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we are

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go into the space

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and we will live

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the time will come in for this i'm sure

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that is why i think we should do this

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u.s navy commander chris cassidy is a

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native of salem massachusetts who grew

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he was aware of the space program as a

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young boy but admits he wasn't

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particularly interested

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i was just like every other boy i mo

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restaurants and things in the summertime

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but that was all to really pay my gas to

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drive to the basketball court cassidy

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left york after high school first for a

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year at the naval academy prep school

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and then on to annapolis where he earned

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a bachelor's in mathematics

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next stop was san diego to begin

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training in special operations as a navy

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seal after four years stationed in

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virginia he earned a masters in ocean

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engineering at mit

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and about that time he became aware of a

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fellow navy seal who had had a similar

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career arc to his

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astronaut bill shepard so one day i

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actually met him or called him and we

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had he gave me some great information

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and i thought you know what that sounds

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cassidy applied but didn't get the call

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the next year just weeks after september

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11th the sealed platoon he commanded did

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get the call and he was deployed to the

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afghanistan region before the 1st of

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october he returned home to another

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posting in virginia and he was selected

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for the astronaut program in 2004 just

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days after coming home from a second

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deployment to afghanistan

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cassidy made three spacewalks on his

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first trip to the international space

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mission that delivered the components to

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complete construction of the kibo

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laboratory complex he's enthusiastic

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about his part in laying the groundwork

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for some future generation of earthlings

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to fulfill their destiny to find a new

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home in space but there'll be a time

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when there'll be people living on other

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planets and it's the work the hard work

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that we're doing right now all of us

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the stage for for that type of remark

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just like christopher columbus set sail

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one day across the ocean

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and thanks to those great explorers we

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live the life that we do today

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fiora yurchikhin was born and raised in

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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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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 course model but what is more

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important for me be a pilot or be an

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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

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so after high school your chicken went

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to the moscow aviation institute earned

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a bachelor's degree in mechanical

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engineering specializing in aerospace

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vehicles and went straight to work for

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the rocket space corporation inergia as

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an engineer he worked as a flight

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controller and when he became lead

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engineer for the mere shuttle program he

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spent time at nasa's johnson space

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center supporting that effort

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your chicken was selected as an inergia

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cosmonaut in 1997 and earned a phd in

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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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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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this program and now it's usual for

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everybody it's usual for my daughters

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for human why i am on this road

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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 although he was very young when he

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saw 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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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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job in the world to be able to do those

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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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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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euro nato joint jet pilot training

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program at shepherd air force base in

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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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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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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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she learned some solitary pursuits as a

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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

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a piece of paper and a pencil and was

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drawing or 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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volleyball team the track team i took

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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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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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doctorate in mechanical engineering in

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austin she returned to jsc working

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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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and was the first person to ever operate

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the shuttle robotic arm the main station

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arm and the japanese arm

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she's confident this mission will appeal

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to the adventure seeker in today's kids

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i think a lot of it is based just on

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human nature that we are all very

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curious

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people