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the first six months we're really

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getting our feet under us just getting

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to know one another really doing mostly

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classroom

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type training next six months has really

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picked up the pace a lot and we've

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covered so many different things

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everything from learning to do space

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walks in the neutral buoyancy lab a

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giant swimming pool the first dives were

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incredible the team of people that work

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at the neutral buoyancy laboratory are

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amazing they work really hard to make it

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as much like space as possible like

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doing a real space walk getting in the

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suit for the first time was just really

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surreal we get into the suit you get

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pressurized it's really cool experience

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to finally get in that spacesuit for the

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first time totally unreal i remember

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being in the pool and looking at my

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hands and they have actual spacesuit

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gloves on and just thinking this

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couldn't possibly be real life

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we went to new mexico to study geology

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but first of all we spent a week here at

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johnson space center working with

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incredible group of phds that taught us

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geology very intense

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week-long class we went on to the upper

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gorge region of the rio grande del norte

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and

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for that it was really cool because we

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went to a region that had a lot of

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volcanic activity and we're basically

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trying to piece together the story of

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how how that region formed we were

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broken up into teams and we got to

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actually go out and map different

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structures in the fields pick up rocks

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break them open with a hammer and

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actually form our own hypotheses and

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then

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set about trying to explore them it was

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a really great experience

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ksc trip was incredible getting out

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there and for me the first time to get

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to go out and touch rockets it was

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really incredible get to see capsules we

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got the ccst 100 we got to see spacex

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for me i had never been there before

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this is you know the site where we've

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launched so many incredibly important

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missions through nasa's history i had

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been there back in 2006 for a shuttle

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launch and to be back almost 12 years

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later as we're getting ready for

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commercial crew to launch from cape

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canaveral again you could sense the

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excitement building and anticipation for

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that so that was really cool to see and

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it was really exciting for me to see

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just how alive it really is today all of

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the different vehicles that are being

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built and being launched right there at

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the land survival trip

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we went to maine for that where the

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military does their survival training as

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well and that entailed a lot of learning

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things like land navigation how to build

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shelters but it was also especially

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important for team building and group

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dynamics it was a great way to bond with

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the whole group

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a few of us have also gotten a chance to

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work at ellington field doing field

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maintenance it's called so

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using the t-38 as a way to train on

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mechanical tools doing repairs learning

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things like sheet metal work and just

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generally getting to know also some of

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the mechanics at ellington field

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on friday i have my first what would we

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call an integrated mastery so it's going

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to be me in the mockups behind us with a

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group of 20 to 30 instructors as i go

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through my first exam first major exam

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for the international space station

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across the board one of my favorite

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parts of this job has been getting to

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know my other classmates everyone is so

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collaborative really working together to

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lift each other up and

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building on each other's strong points

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this group has been incredibly close and

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every single one of us

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adds a lot of value to the team and i

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think that's been one of the best parts

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