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fyodor yurchikhin was born and raised 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 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

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so after high school your yurchikhin

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went to the moscow aviation institute

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earned 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 mir 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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in 2010.

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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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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 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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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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job in the world to be able to do those

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and and call it a living

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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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would become his wife

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bachelor's degree in political sciences

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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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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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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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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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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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a piece of paper and a pencil and was

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drawing or doodling or doing something

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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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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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mechanical engineering in grand forks

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the university of texas at austin

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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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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

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she's confident this mission will appeal

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human nature that we are all very

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human beings like challenges and this is

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an ultimate challenge

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a soviet military officer he grew up all

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over russia and had his sights set on

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the military for his own career by the

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a military officer as well like my

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of aerospace medicine after graduation

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from the kirov military medical academy

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cosmonaut training center as a doctor

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earned a degree in patenting

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school and was selected for cosmonaut

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a flight engineer on expedition 15. he

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did another eva during expedition 22

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before becoming commander of the station

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for expedition 23 in 2010.

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gctc before starting training for this

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mission which presented another

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instinct to learn new things

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area where we live

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of mikhail razanski a leading soviet

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engineer specializing in missile and

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spacecraft radio guidance razanski had

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try to go to the moscow state

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biochemistry and went straight to work

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specialization in ways to prevent the

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adverse effects caused by the absence of

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gravity got him involved in the space

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industry and sparked an interest in

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becoming a cosmonaut himself

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in 2003 he was selected to join ibmp's

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cosmonaut corps and completed basic

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training at the gagarin cosmonaut

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in 2006 he earned his doctorate in

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physiology and space medicine and in

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long isolation experiment known as mars

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by 2010 he was certified as a gctc test

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cosmonaut which he calls the most

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interesting job in the world because it

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life that's why i became cosmonaut

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u.s air force colonel mike hopkins is

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lebanon and raised a few miles away on a

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he credits his small town upbringing for

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his getting the chance to try everything

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other sports but all school activities

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engineering my father was a pilot in the

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marines back in the early 60s i flew a4s

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and so there was aviation in in my

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family so that certainly piqued my

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interest in it and my interest in space

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my desire to become an astronaut

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started back in high school hopkins

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headed to the university of illinois to

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study aerospace engineering he also

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walked on to the football team and ended

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up as a starter and a team captain by

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the time he graduated with his bachelors

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in aerospace engineering and a

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commission in the air force earned

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through the rotc

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after finishing a master's in aerospace

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engineering at stanford hopkins began

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his air force career in a laboratory

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working on space systems technologies

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then he moved on to become a flight test

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engineer even spending time as an

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exchange officer at the canadian flight

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test center in alberta in 2002 hopkins

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won a scholarship to study political

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science in italy after which he was

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assigned to work in acquisitions at the

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pentagon and then as a special assistant

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to the vice chairman of the joint chiefs

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of staff the job he had when he was

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selected as an astronaut in 2009

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he's the first member of his astronaut

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class to fly in space and eager to use

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his mission to try to help satisfy our

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desire to learn

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humans are always striving for for

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knowledge for knowing what's beyond the

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hill for knowing how

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each little thing works in in our world

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whether it's the human itself whether

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it's anything within biology the

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physical world

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all of that we

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we have this desire to know as much as

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we can about that and and the space