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i'm caleb barron a mission specialist

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for nasa's spacex crew 3 mission to the

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i was born in idaho my family moved a

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lot when we were kids we lived in

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montana colorado but for most of my

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middle school time and high school lived

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in washington state

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in a town called richland which is in

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southeastern washington i'm the middle

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of three girls

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my dad's an engineer my mom's a math

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whiz and a runner they always really

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raised

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us to be

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ourselves

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which was really cool for me and my

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sisters to all kind of find

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our own paths

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i knew that i would want to

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find ways to challenge myself and become

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a leader that's how i first got

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interested in joining the military and

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ultimately got interested in attending

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the naval academy where i studied

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control systems in robotics engineering

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when i showed up at the naval academy i

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thought i wanted to be a fighter pilot

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and we have this really cool training

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between our sophomore and junior year i

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kind of think of it at like the navy's

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job fair you go spend a week with every

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single major warfare community surface

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ships submarines aviation

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and when i got to go underway on a

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submarine i just felt like this is where

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it's not for everyone

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it's kind of a fascinating world you

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develop your own little microcosm under

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the sea

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because you have to be able to provide

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everything you need to live and work

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safely and also accomplish a mission

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within your own crew

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the time of my submarine was the most

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developmental period of my life for a

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lot of reasons but especially because of

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the operational experience and

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operational teamwork i got to do while

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we were underway when we were deployed

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i actually never even thought about

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becoming an astronaut until after

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serving on a submarine for me it was all

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those parallels that really inspired me

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to want to apply and to believe that i

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even could all right nasa family and

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friends our first astronaut caleb aaron

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[Applause]

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i found out that i was officially on

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crew 3 when i was on my way to the

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neutral buoyancy lab for spacewalk

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training and i got a text from the chief

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of the office and he said if you're

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awake give me a call so i gave him a

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call on my way into work and he said

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kayla you're on crew three

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and i was just so

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excited

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crew 3 is just such an amazing group of

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people it's a really special crew

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because i think everybody brings a

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really unique perspective and different

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background and so there's always

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something to learn and whenever we're

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faced with a problem or have a decision

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to make it's really interesting to see

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the different perspectives and how

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together we make better decisions and

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come up with more interesting solutions

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i just feel super lucky to be

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with people who all have such diverse

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perspectives and experiences but have

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really learned how to mesh and work

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together as a team

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i definitely would want to thank my

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family for supporting me on this journey

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they've always

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been there for me and pushed me to chase

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my dreams and been super supportive

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every time i stumble or fall helping me

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get back up and try again without them

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you know to hold me accountable to push

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me i definitely wouldn't be standing