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i wanted to be an astronaut from the

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time i was three or four years old i

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remember telling my mom at that time and

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i never deviated from what i wanted to

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be something about exploration

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has fascinated me from a young age i

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wrote a short story in kindergarten

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about my family going on a trip

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on soyuz out to outer space

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every imax movie that came out i had to

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watch i had to see i was fascinated by

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it a combination of

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the teamwork the exploration

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being somewhere that nobody else has

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ever been always fascinated me well i'm

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an army officer i entered the army

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through west point

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the us military academy i majored in

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mechanical and aerospace engineering

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while i was there

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immediately went to graduate school in

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england i got two master's degrees one

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in aerospace engineering one in

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international security

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from there i went to fly helicopters in

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the army flew the oh-58d kio warrior

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deployed to iraq a couple times

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became a test pilot and an instructor

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pilot in the army from there

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and was selected for nasa directly after

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test pilot school training's been very

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exciting we are doing practice space

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walks in the pool which is one of the

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highlights getting to work in the

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spacesuit

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we learn all about the international

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space station that's something that is a

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huge responsibility for us to take care

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of that piece of equipment so we really

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learn about that

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um learning to just work with our

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classmates you know living and working

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in space we're no longer going on short

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duration trips but when we go to space

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we're living and working with the same

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couple people for six months at a time

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to me it's like learning to fly another

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helicopter it's an extremely technical

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piece of equipment it's just like an

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aircraft that you get in you have to

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know all of the details about the suit

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you got to know the emergency procedures

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you got to know the different systems

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you have to learn kind of a different

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way of adapting your body movements in

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order to be able to accomplish the

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mission every day when we go to the nbl

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there's you know 100 people there

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working to support that mission and you

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uh you're just a very small execution

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piece of that i think that exploration

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is it unifies people it gives people

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promise that there's something more out

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there it satisfies a curiosity a

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collective curiosity that we all have

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a sense of accomplishment when we find

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something new out

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the idea of discovery is magical and i

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really think that our next step is to go

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beyond our low earth orbit and beyond