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so for as long as I can remember I've

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wanted to be an astronaut I had this

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goal of becoming an astronaut this dream

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of becoming an astronaut and I

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understood that the Air Force Academy it

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was a good way to do that and so I

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decided that that's that's where I

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wanted to go that was my top choice and

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had the great great fortune of being

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accepted there I think many of the

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things that appealed to me about

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skydiving have a direct application to

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working in the space environment it can

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be a very dangerous activity if you

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don't take all the appropriate

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precautions we're very careful about our

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equipment we use checklists to make sure

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that all the appropriate things have

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been done in preparation for a jump you

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crawl out you can feel the wind blowing

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over you and then you all leave the

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aircraft at the same time and get into a

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the feeling of opening shock is a little

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jarring but it's a comforting one you

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know that your parachute is opened and

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that you're on your way safely to the

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earth

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flying under the canopy is an incredible

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experience feeling a wind rush past you

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and controlling your descent to where

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you want to land I had the opportunity

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to jump into our Air Force football

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games so jumping into a stadium with

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tens of thousands of people watching is

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quite an experience as well the habits

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that I felt was working on the parachute

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team are things that I think transfer to

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working in the aviation environment