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dr steve swanson was born in syracuse

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new york and moved with his family a

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number of times before ending up in

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steamboat springs colorado as he entered

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his teens it's a beautiful place i love

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the mountains i love the area and

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when i grew up there it was definitely

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like a half agricultural ranching

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community and half resort and it was a

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great combination he stayed at home for

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college got his bachelor's of science in

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engineering physics at the university of

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colorado but then went to florida

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atlantic university to get his masters

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of applied science in computer systems

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at that point he considered his options

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and the job of astronaut seemed to have

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what he was looking for

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after a year working as an engineer in

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phoenix he got a job as an engineer at

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the johnson space center's aircraft

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operations division working on the

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shuttle training aircraft while earning

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his doctorate in computer science from

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texas a m

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he was chosen for the astronaut program

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in 1998 and made his first flight in

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2007 on a mission to deliver a truss

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segment to the international space

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station

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swanson made two spacewalks on that

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mission and two more on a 2009 shuttle

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flight that delivered another truss

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segment to outfit the station to perform

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its mission

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we're going off now we're trying to get

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science better we're also trying to find

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maybe a place that we could go to uh to

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maybe you know get resources off the

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moon we could go explore the mars all