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the members of the international space

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station crew are now all veteran space

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fliers and all eager for the opportunity

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to make a contribution to the future of

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human exploration

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dr oleg kotov is a native of simferopol

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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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to become

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a military officer as well like my

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father my grandfather

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however i kept dreaming about space and

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while i was i had to select my major

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i was very careful about it and

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i became a military surgeon in the area

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of aerospace medicine after graduation

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from the kirov military medical academy

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kotov went to work at the gagarin

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cosmonaut training center as a doctor

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studying altitude physiology and the

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effects of space flight on the human

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body at the same time he studied

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diagnostics and methods of pilot

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selection and also earned a degree in

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in 1996 he entered air force pilot

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school and was selected for cosmonaut

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training he made his first space flight

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in 2007 and completed two spacewalks as

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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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kotov then served as deputy chief of the

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gctc before starting training for this

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mission which presented another

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opportunity to fulfill the human

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instinct to learn new things

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it's a desire to

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understand the world around you to

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to learn something new dr sergey

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cosmonauts one who was born and raised

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in moscow

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as the son of engineers and a grandson

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of mikhail razansky a leading soviet

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engineer specializing in missile and

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spacecraft radio guidance rozanski had

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his sights set on a career in science at

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a young age

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school where we were majoring in biology

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think i knew that

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biochemistry and went straight to work

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at the institute for biomedical problems

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at the russian academy of sciences

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his specialization in ways to prevent

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the adverse effects caused by the

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absence of gravity got him involved in

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the space industry and sparked an

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interest in 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 center in 2006 he earned his

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doctorate in physiology and space

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medicine and in 2009

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he was crew commander in a 105 day long

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isolation experiment known as mars 500.

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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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anything you can think of is combined by

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very interesting you have new

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technologies new approaches and you're

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know the latest developments

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it's very interesting to live this life

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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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from south central missouri born in

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lebanon and raised a few miles away on a

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farm outside richland

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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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my father was a pilot in the marines

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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

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bachelor's in aerospace engineering and

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a commission in the air force earned

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engineering at stanford hopkins began

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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

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in 2002 hopkins won a scholarship to

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study political science in italy after

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which he was assigned to work in

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acquisitions at the pentagon and then as

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a special assistant to the vice chairman

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of the joint chiefs of staff the job he

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had when he was selected as an astronaut

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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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each little thing works in in our world

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physical world

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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

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station the international space station

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fits right into that

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dr koichi wakata was born and raised in

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saitama a bedroom community of tokyo he

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remembers watching the first moon

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landing on television and wishing he

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could fly in space

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but since there were no japanese

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astronauts then he put the dream aside

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as impractical but he had other

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interests including baseball and

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by airplanes ever since i was a small

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and i always want to i wanted to become

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an engineer or pilot to to make and fly

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wakata pursued that dream at kyushu

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university where he earned a bachelor's

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degree in aeronautical engineering and a

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masters in applied mechanics and then

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started his career as a structural

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engineer for japan airlines

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agency advertised for astronaut

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candidates wakata applied and was

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selected in 1992 to begin astronaut

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in houston in 1996 he was japan's first

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ever space shuttle mission specialist on

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a flight where he ran the shuttle's

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robot arm to deploy and retrieve

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satellites in 2000 he used his robotics

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expertise again on the shuttle flight

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that installed the z1 truss and a

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after he finished his doctorate in

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university in 2004 he completed training

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engineer and then in 2009 became japan's

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first space station crew member as a

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he's eager to keep doing what he can to

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prepare the way for future exploration

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new knowledge new technologies that we

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benefit in our daily life on the ground

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michael turin was born in colomna russia

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a historical town outside moscow but he

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interest in space flight did not focus

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on becoming a cosmonaut himself

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dreaming and doing all my all i could

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overcoming difficulties

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and he focused on getting as close to it

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from the moscow aviation institute and

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development and later in methods of

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training cosmonauts methods he usually

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tried out on himself first

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turin made three spacewalks during his

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first trip to the international space

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station in 2001 as a flight engineer on

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expedition 3 and two more evas as flight

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engineer on expedition 14 in 2006 and

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2007. he's pleased to be contributing to

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physiological research that will prepare

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humans for future space exploration and

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even more interested in how some of the

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psychological results will be applied on

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they can be used not just in space

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exploration but can be propagated

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rick mastracchio is a native of

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waterbury connecticut and grew up there

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in the 1960s interested in the space

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program but not with the idea that he'd

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ever fly in space himself

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could even be an astronaut it never

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science i was always interested when the

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aviation related topics or space

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science related topics you know when i

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he took those interests to the

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university of connecticut the first

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person in his family ever to go to

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college and earned a bachelor of science

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degree in electrical engineering and

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computer science which got him a job at

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hamilton standard developing guidance

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electrical engineering at rensselaer

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looking for new astronauts and decided

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what he got was a job offer from

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rockwell to work in shuttle operations

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and he moved to houston in 1987.

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three years later he joined nasa as an

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engineer specializing in software

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development then became a flight

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controller in ascent and entry guidance

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and procedures and was selected as an

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astronaut in 1996 after nine years of

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applying

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his first space shuttle flight was the

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2000 mission that outfitted the

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international space station's new zvezda

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module for its first permanent crew

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he made three spacewalks during his

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second trip to the station in 2007 on a

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mission that delivered a truss segment

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and a new gyroscope and three more evas

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on a 2010 resupply mission he sees this

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station as a means to support inevitable

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exploration well beyond the neighborhood

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of this blue planet

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we are meant to explore

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we being the people here on this planet

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earth we want to go out and see what's

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out there we want to know more about

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things and we can't just do that through