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so i started looking at the service

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academies and the naval academy had

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obviously a great program at

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academically speaking and military

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opportunities after that but they also

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had a great soccer program for women as

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well so i decided to go to the naval

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academy for those reasons and really

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ended up loving it there and loving the

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military so during my time there i

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majored in mechanical engineering and

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then after graduation i had a great

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opportunity to go to graduate school

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immediately upon graduation so i went to

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stanford university to get a master's in

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mechanical engineering and then after

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that i continued on with my military

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training in in one week i may be doing

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spacewalk training and so i'm in the mbl

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in a spacesuit or i'm in the in the nbl

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scuba because i'm preparing for a

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spacewalk and then a couple days later

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i'm in the t-38 doing training with some

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other astronauts and we're and we're

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flying in the t-38 there's a lot of

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academics involved in learning the space

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station all the different systems i'm

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also learning to speak russian which is

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something i never thought i'd have an

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opportunity to do so it's a lot of fun i

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think so far definitely the training in

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the mbl for me has been the most

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enjoyable for a couple residents one

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it's really really hard it's more

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difficult than i thought it would be and

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so there's a whole mental preparation

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side to that but there's a whole

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physical preparation side to that as

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well and that's really directly you know

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translatable to going into space and

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doing a spacewalk or an eva in space and

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so that's kind of the closest training i

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think that we get to something that we

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would be doing on orbit and and by

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exploring and learning new things we

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learn more not just about space and and

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how the universe was created and what

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our resources are and where we could go

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but we also can look back and learn more

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about earth and about the place that we

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live in now and how it's important to

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take care of earth and so by exploring

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not only do we get to look forward but

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we also can look back and make sure that

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we're taking care of earth now so some

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of our initial training is we got to

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experience microgravity by getting a

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ride in the vomit comet as they call it

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and it's a big aircraft that will fly

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parabolas so you can experience it's

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about 40 seconds so free fall of zero g

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and so i was really excited about this

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i'd heard about it you know for for many

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years and so i was really excited to get

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this opportunity i thought it was going

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to be

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really calm you know kind of like being

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underwater i'm going to mean zero g it's

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going to be very peaceful and great and

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it was great but when they get the top