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u.s navy captain barry wilmore grew up

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in mount juliet tennessee a suburb of

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nashville it's a place and time he

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remembers for great friends and a great

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school program that nurtured his natural

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impulses

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my parents my mom specifically told me

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that my first word was not mama or daddy

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it was why i've always always been

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inquisitive and you know what's out

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there and how's that work and those type

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of those type of thoughts have always

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been within me

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after high school in mount julia wilmore

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walked on to the football team at

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tennessee technological university

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despite being what he describes as slow

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small and weak

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but is urged to know why kicked in and

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he earned a bachelor's degree in

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electrical engineering then what he

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calls a patriotic tug pulled him to the

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navy

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after finishing flight school and

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picking up the call sign butch wilmore

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made two deployments during operation

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desert storm

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then went to the navy test pilot school

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and later earned two master's degrees

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one in aviation systems from the

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university of tennessee and the other in

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electrical engineering from ttu before

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making two more overseas deployments

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then he taught at the navies and the air

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force's test pilot schools before being

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selected as an astronaut in 2000

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wilmore made his first space flight as

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the pilot on a space shuttle mission

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that delivered express logistics

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carriers and other parts to the

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international space station in late 2009

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this mission gives him the chance to

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push the boundaries of human knowledge

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we do science and various things

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hopefully for the betterment of mankind

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that's why the station exists so we can

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turn around what we learned there and

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and and and use it here on earth that's

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our purpose

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and to to go and and have the