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when i was at the marshall space flight

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center as an intern when i was in

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undergrad

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we had an opportunity to help out there

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at the u.s space and rocket center

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and space camp and i was able to teach

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some classes on the space shuttle and

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the orbiter

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elementary and middle school teachers

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who are coming down to get the education

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to bring back to their classrooms i went

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to college at a real small liberal arts

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school called albion college and there i

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got a fundamental

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solid education in physics and math but

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also the foundation in a spectrum of

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other disciplines including economics

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and arts and humanities

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and it was there that i got my first

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taste of

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collaborative learning and peer

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mentorship and

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and exploration really after albion i

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went to university of rochester again to

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continue this this idea of exploration

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and i was

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a phd student in high energy physics and

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was part of an incredible team there had

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a had a superb mentor and

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advisor and we were part of an

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experiment with 500 scientists

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from about 40 universities in 10 10

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countries

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and we were at the cutting edge of high

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energy physics and

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it was uh it was a really exciting time

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to be there and to be making the

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discoveries and after the university of

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rochester i went into the navy and

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became a test pilot you know it is uh

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it's tough to pick any one thing we have

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gotten to do things like the national

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outdoor leadership course

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for a week and a half

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getting in the pool the neutral buoyancy

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lab and training for spacewalks

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we're getting into robotics

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we fly a lot

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it is it is really tough to pick any one

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thing

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i'm surprised at how much i ended up

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enjoying learning russian

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that is nothing i could have made an

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excuse to do and it is just

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it's an incredible experience

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and and very diverse uh in terms of the

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way we spend our time

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but for me i think the the most

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interesting thing has been we've got so

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many different personalities and

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backgrounds in the group and it's really

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neat to merge those

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those strengths and get to a position

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where we need to be which is to be ready

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uh as a group for the next generation of

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space exploration you've got a variety

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of tools to use and most importantly you

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have problem solving skill set

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something i call

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intellectual courage

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you may not have the background or the

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expertise in a specific topic but you do

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have the courage and

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and know how to tackle that problem and

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and tackle something that maybe at the

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outset seems

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insurmountable and

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it quickly becomes something that we can

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handle or even thrive in well that's

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what makes it fun right the hard stuff

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is uh is the fun stuff it uh it's hard

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for a reason and uh for me i

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i just so genuinely enjoy uh the the eva

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training the spacewalk training um and

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it's physically demanding um i've you

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find out very quickly that you don't

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have the forearm strength that you

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thought you did

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and it's just uh it's in a really

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incredible experience that pushes you

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both physically and mentally and it's uh

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it's quite rewarding nobody could do

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this on their own

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and

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can do together as a team

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you know there's no telling what we're