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welcome to the 2017 Afghan class we

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really are looking forward to having you

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join our team this is the most I can

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guarantee the most unique environment

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you will ever work in we love it Wow

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throw all those interviews you finally

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found out and it's so exciting for us to

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have you guys as part of the office I'm

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standing here in the middle of Johnson

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Space Center where you'll soon be

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working we can't wait to welcome you

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here and get you started on training you

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are in for an amazing ride

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literally I'm sending this from Corpus

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Christi Naval Air Station where I'm

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learning to fellow the t6 is just one of

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the many trainings you can look forward

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to welcome upwards I can't tell you how

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much I enjoyed getting to know everyone

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and learn from them to take all the

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short courses we took in geology

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oceanography space science from experts

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in their field some of whom even trained

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the Apollo astronaut when I first came

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to the astronaut office in 2000 I

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started meeting the instructors the

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flight controllers two signs of the

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engineers all those that make

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spaceflight happen and I remember

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feeling totally outclassed and you

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should too you got a ton of work ahead

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of you and will not be making it easy

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for you so my advice to you would be to

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have fun with the training that you're

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about to learn for the next two years

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over the next few years it will be tough

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so you owe it to yourself to have a

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little fun the class of 2013

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eight-balls I'm sure are especially

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happy to see you join because now you

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get to take over the duties of the most

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recent class oh and don't worry about

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picking a class name because your

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colleagues here are more than happy to

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help you with that cause the 2017 my

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best advice for you is to not talk for

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your first three years welcome aboard

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when you walk in this door you're going

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to be here to learn and train and fly in

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space and be crew members and that's

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what's the important part you're going

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to be awesome and you're going to fly in

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space and we're very glad to have you I

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actually enjoy the time you have with

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this incredible team of people that

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you'll be working playing and training

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travel safe we'll see you soon we on the

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space station wanted to send you some

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special messages and I want to show you

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your new office so come with me

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it's a little bit cramped the desk is

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kind of small but the view both of you

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will open the big window so you can see

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outside so that's your new view and your

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job is to take the Wonder and amazement

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that we get to see every day and share

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it with the world and ignite their

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passion to explore - it just doesn't get

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so congratulations again class 2017

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welcome to the club

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