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going through my whole life i've never

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necessarily been the smartest guy or the

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fastest or the best pilot but i could

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so i came from what was then a small

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town louisville colorado

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the fifth generation of fisher to grow

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up in that town and and everybody had

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been a contractor you know on the

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construction site there's one goal and

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that's to get the job done uh so i was

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the smallest the youngest of the four

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kids dad always said well you're not

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worth much on a shovel yet but i'll put

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you in the bobcat i was always the kid

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who was driving the tractors and the

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trucks and the trailers and everything

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and i was also the one who would upkeep

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them at night i would stay late and i

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would clean them and i would change the

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oil and i i loved my machines and really

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that has followed me through as a

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certainly as a pilot and now as an

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astronaut

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working with machines and and being kind

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of in tune to how they're operating and

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what you need to do to get them at their

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peak efficiency i think that that has

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followed me uh my entire career

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uh when i was six there's actually a

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picture of me and and my siblings so

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we're right next to the saturn five you

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know i just looked up at this ginormous

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rocket and fell in love with the whole

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idea i really chased that that dream as

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i grew up and wanted to serve my country

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went to the air force academy but it

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wasn't until my sophomore year at the

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air force academy where it really became

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a passion

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my dad was dying of cancer and and i had

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gone home kind of on on his last

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a bit of time and and and i said dad i

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i'm going to come home

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i want to help with the family company

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and and i just feel like i'm i'm in the

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wrong place up there he's like man your

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head has always been in the stars and

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there's no way you're coming home

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i dare you to dream

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for me on the on the launch you know i'm

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going to go to work

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i'm going to get to orbit and as soon as

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you know everything deploys and we're

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happy i'm going to look out that window

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and just take a little minute and enjoy

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that moment

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i i will be thinking about

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yeah

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probably thinking about dad he was gone

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before

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i became who i am

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you wanted him to see you

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become something

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and so

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uh

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yeah i'll be thinking of them

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i'm jack fisher and as an astronaut i'm

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just one small part of the overall