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for generations we dreamed about a place

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to live and work in space

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a place where life up there would

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benefit life down here

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today that dream has come true

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research on the international space

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station improves lives all over the

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world

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the station's benefits for humanity grow

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every day

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and they can be told by the lives that

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i grew up out in the country in indiana

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corn and soybeans were the main crops

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i always been interested in technology

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and in

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science being out in the rural setting

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there wasn't a whole lot of support for

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this

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space jam is a annual weekend boy scout

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event

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and we do all kinds of technology based

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we have about a thousand people that

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come uh every year this is our seventh

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year doing it and it's a blast every

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year

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the contact with the international space

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station was one of the driving forces

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that helped to create a space jam in

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fact the the first space jam was really

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basically only about the contact it was

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a dream of the ham radio operator to say

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hey let's

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i want to talk to the astronauts on the

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space station that how cool could that

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be that that's the the top of the game

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each year we call up the international

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space station and we give these young

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kids the opportunity to ask questions to

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the astronaut is it true that it will

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take over a year to get to mars and back

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over it absolutely is true the first

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time that i remember really having this

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real impression was i think the third

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year we did this

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i was in charge of actually calling up

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the space station and establishing the

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contact we were out in the middle of the

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night in field i said anyone s anyone

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has this this is wb9sa calling for a

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scheduled contact you copy over and i

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said it again and all of a sudden real

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crisp comes back wb9sa this is the

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international space station and how are

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you doing tonight

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this is amazing

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i graduated as valedictorian and i was

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lucky enough to be admitted to princeton

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with a complete scholarship and i then

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moved to san francisco where i'm a

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software engineer

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so i went from living on a farm to

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living downtown in san francisco writing

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software for people