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we came down to visit were able to see

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the saturn 5 before they put it in the

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building so it's just sitting out there

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and in this picture i'm rocking a little

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powder blue jumpsuit and looking up at

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this rock it just fell in love that was

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kind of a child like

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just infatuation with the whole concept

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of space and i chased that

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but it wasn't until my sophomore year at

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the air force academy where i really

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galvanized the passion for space i grew

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up in louisville colorado

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i think i'm the fifth generation of

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fisher to grow up in that town and and

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went to centaurus high school

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there in lafayette went down the road

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went to the air force academy so the

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academy really

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allowed me to galvanize that and to

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just grow up as a as a man and

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move on from there

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obviously the air force has been a huge

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family for me

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my brothers and sisters we're just like

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family

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all the things that we've gone through

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so

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it was a

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very formative four years and probably

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the most important of my life and then

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followed that up the air force allowed

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me to go to graduate school before pilot

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training so i went to mit

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both places i majored in astrodynamics

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astronautical engineering and and then

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went to fly and i've been flying ever

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since to get to astronaut is a very long

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road

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i was always

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ready for what was next but loved where

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i was at

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um

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you know

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i i wanted to serve my country uh the

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air force academy was a no-brainer uh

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didn't like to swim so i wasn't gonna go

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to annapolis and new york's too far away

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so i wanted to stay in colorado

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uh

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i love the air force i love the people i

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love

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so i drew a course

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why astronaut i drew a course where i

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would love every step along the way

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my dad taught me that you know love what

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you do and you never work a day in your

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life

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and that's what i did

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so if fate

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had different plans for me i was happy

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as a clam wherever i was i was

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i gave a 100 percent of

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you know my whole heart to everything

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that i did and i loved it

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but

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i always had my eye on the end goal

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and i was always ready for that if those

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opportunities arose

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i think it's it's always better to be

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lucky than good but if you're prepared

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and lucky that's even better

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so

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uh why astronaut i love the journey

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uh

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how i got here being really lucky and

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being prepared for any opportunity as a

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king

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i'm a contractor's kid so building is my

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thing and i love taking stuff apart i

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love i love seeing a problem

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taking it apart in my mind and you know

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trying to figure out how it works so i

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just love using my hands to to build and

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space exploration is a team sport

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and

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you can't you know as astronauts we're

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just the lucky the very lucky person at

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the very end of

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an incredibly long line thousands of

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scientists and engineers and

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just countless people that make it

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possible so to do the great things the

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truly amazing things that change our