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it was seeing pam melroy come back from

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her mission and talk about the the folks

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that she worked with and

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you know people asked questions about

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the the technical side and about flying

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in space and but she spent most of her

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time talking about the people that she

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worked with and so that that is what

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really influenced that the childhood

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dream to transition into a professional

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aspiration and i pretty much had my mind

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set on studying engineering going to

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college i went to cal poly to study

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engineering i was also a wrestler and i

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think the sports is is a an important

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part of my education

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definitely had impact on what i would

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wind up doing after college and so i

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went to cal poly a great engineering

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really enjoyed my time there

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and

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i chose to go there because it was a

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combination of a great academic program

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but i wanted to play football and

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wrestle and it was also a division one

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program and i'm really glad that i did

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because wrestling i would say is one of

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indelible

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influences in my life even to this day

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someone asked me about being in the in

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the pool at the nbl and doing the eva

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training and i was

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comparing it to wrestling and how you

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have to be able to think in 3d and to

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think moves ahead when you're wrestling

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if you want to go from good to great and

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i think that same applies in the pool

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you can kind of back up look at your

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work space and you can rotate yourself

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upside down and then attack the problem

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or lay on your flat on your back and so

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wrestling had just as much of an impact

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on me as the things i was learning in

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the lab or in engineering statics and

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dynamics you know we have been engaged

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in t-38 flying getting qualified in the

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airplane and eva extravehicular activity

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the spacewalk training at the neutral

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buoyancy lab we've also been learning

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space station systems and

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russian and we are actually getting

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ready to get

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a little more in depth into robotics but

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being in the pool in the suit i i've

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loved it

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i love being in the spacesuit i love

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working on i've always liked working

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with my hands i think at the core of it

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all is curiosity i think

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being a human makes you curious if

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somebody puts you in a box you want to

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know what's outside the box somebody

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sticks you on a planet and and binds you

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to that planet by gravity all you want

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to know what it's like to get out there

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and and break free of gravity for a