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indycar driver james hinchcliffe will

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tell you he's a nasa fan in fact he was

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in this very room just over a month ago

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learning about what we do here in the

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payload operations integration center

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that's just before his race in alabama

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well as you may know last week hinch

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suffered some serious injuries when his

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car crashed during a practice lap at

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indy

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well we're happy to say that he is on

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the mend and we wanted to show our

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support by showing you an interview that

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we taped with him while he was here to

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find out what inspired him and if given

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the chance would he like to go to space

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and live

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i'm here with james hinchcliffe or hinch

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is the indycar world knows him hench

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thanks for stopping by at the payload

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operations integration center today in

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huntsville tell us about your interest

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in space i mean you're a fancy race car

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driver why space uh because it's the

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only thing that's cooler than being a

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race car driver um no i've honestly i've

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had a love of space and space

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exploration and travel since i was a

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little kid

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i went to space camp and went to space

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academy and you know really got into it

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when i was younger the whole astronaut

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thing didn't really pan out for me

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landed in motorsports obviously and it's

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cool i mean there are a lot of

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correlations for sure but i've got such

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an admiration and appreciation for what

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everybody here does and and all the

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programs that are going on you know

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around the world to get you know humans

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into space and everything that we're

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learning and technology we're developing

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and all the rest of it it's it's

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incredibly fascinating to me and that

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indycar thing is working out pretty well

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for you anyway right so far so good but

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if it doesn't i might end up here

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begging for a job we'll work for food

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we'll take you i mean you you obviously

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are conditioned do you understand what

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goes through the conditioning and

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astronauts go through to get to space

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yeah i mean when i went to johnson space

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center last year i got a very in-depth

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tour and it was it was incredible to

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learn you know how long out the training

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really does start for a mission and

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the whole selection process and all the

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development through each stage and

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i mean i can only imagine what the build

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up to to a launch must really be like i

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mean i know what the build up the indy

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500 is like is i think actually small in

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comparison to what these guys and girls

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have to you know put themselves through

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and then also mentally prepare for and

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again like i said it's it's something

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i've just got such an admiration for

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is it the need for speed

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ah i don't know i mean we were joking

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earlier they go considerably faster than

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we do in the indy car series but you

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don't really feel it so i guess it's

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kind of even but no i mean maybe it's a

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appreciation of high horsepower you know

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a lot of a lot of thrust obviously but

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it's you know for the amount of

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similarities there's obviously a lot of

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differences as well and uh to get to

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kind of be on hand here and kind of

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witness some of those up close is great

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yeah what about the correlation between

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uh as this is the pit crew for the

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astronauts uh you got some positions

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here you could use on your team uh i

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think so uh the safety one is one i was

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actually particularly fond of uh

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right yeah obviously a big part of what

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we do as well but no i mean it's it's

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funny because you know not dissimilar to

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racing and we as drivers get a lot of

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the attention whether it's positive or

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negative and i think in a lot of cases

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astronauts are sort of in the same

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position they're sort of in the

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spotlight but it really is an entire

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group of people and you know for us

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whether it's the 30 40 50 employees on

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my race team i mean here it's thousands

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of people that are responsible for you

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know building the pieces designing the

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pieces physically getting them up there

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looking after them once they're up there

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i mean it is this is the epitome of a

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team exercise right here and uh and yeah

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i mean to see it all functioning here it

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just looks like a bigger version of a

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race shop in a way yeah and you talked

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let's go back a little bit and talk

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about the inspiration as a young kid you

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want to be an astronaut are we inspiring

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the kids this day and time i sure hope

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so i mean you know i obviously wasn't

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around in the moon landing days but i

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was still really taken with with space

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exploration and uh learning about you

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know how we went from the saturn 5 to a

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reusable shuttle and all that and now

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obviously the the space station is uh is

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a very cool thing that i think a lot of

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people know about and um maybe growing

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up in canada helped because we did play

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a little part in in that whole thing as

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well uh and now obviously talking about

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going to mars and beyond i mean that to

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me is i don't know how you couldn't get

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excited about that so hopefully you know

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again especially through things like

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space camp because i know that was a big

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influence on me for sure is getting kids

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really interested and really involved

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and what all is going on here let's talk

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about this part you have in your hand

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right here tell us about that

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so this i mean this is incredibly cool

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as uh we look at getting further into

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space obviously uh some of the

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technology that's going to come into uh

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into play and being able to you know

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certain parts for repairs or

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replacements or whatever is 3d printing

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and that's something that we use in

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motorsports quite a bit when developing

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new parts and i'm told that there's a 3d

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printer up on the space station and that

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though this didn't come from the space

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station this was the uh the first file

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that was ever sent to the station for

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the first actual 3d printer part built

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and uh a replica was made down here on

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earth and it was engraved with my i

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don't know if the one in the space

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station had my name on the file probably

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not we'll check that we'll check that

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we'll just say yes well you know but

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probably not um so no this was you know

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given to me a little momento obviously

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signed by the astronaut who printed it

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and uh that is that is super cool i was

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again saying earlier that i've got a

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i've got a decent mantle full of you

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know some cool trophies but this one it

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might be small but it's going up there

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that's one of the coolest things i've

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got i like that going up on the mantel

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um so we talked a little bit downstairs

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we were looking at that model and i said

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would you live there would you give it

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up and and go to space i don't i don't

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know how you couldn't i don't know how

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you could turn that down you know that's

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that's not an offer people get every day

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and it would be tough to get like i said

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i've got one of the coolest jobs on

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earth but this one's not on earth so it

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i think it's a little bit cooler it

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would be an absolute dream to get to go

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up there

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all right well we'll see what we can do

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about that handshake you make a call all

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right let me know i'll make a call