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i'm isa astronaut matthias mata i will

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be mission specialist on the nasa spacex

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crew 3 mission to the international

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space station

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i was born in germany i grew up there

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and for the first 20 years i actually

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stayed in the more or less the same area

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i was an ambulance driver for almost two

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years and i also financed my studies

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later on by working on the weekend

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i started two years in germany material

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science then i went for a year to the uk

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studied day material science and

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discovered how much you can learn

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while being in a different country that

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was a huge inspiration for me and i

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decided to keep on learning more

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languages and continuing different

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countries

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in 2008 esa started the call to for new

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astronauts out of eight and a half

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thousand applicants only 10 candidates

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passed all the tests and were considered

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suitable for astronauts i was one of

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them

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i was always fascinated by space and

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what does an astronaut actually do so an

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astronaut works with a lot of

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engineering stuff we do science in space

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we work in international teams

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and the adventure that we are able to

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live as astronauts in a combination of

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these four facts engineering on the edge

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of what is possible science

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international teams and adventure that's

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only possible as an astronaut

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i think crew 3 is

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a kind of a rookie crew with only one

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experienced space flyer tom but on the

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other hand i don't feel like that we are

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rookies at all raja has a huge

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background in flying kayla she has a

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huge background in working in a very

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difficult and highly technical

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environment i don't consider both of

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them rookies

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i believe we are an extremely good team

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and after a few days in space i think we

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will be there and it will be our

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environment

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once we arrive on the international

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space station we will run a lot of

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experiments my focus will be lots of

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experiments in the materials science

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domain

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the name of my mission is cosmic is it's

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a declaration of life to space and

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especially to the two only oasis that we

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have in space our beautiful planet earth

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and the international space station

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the patch is inspired by guidance of

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nebra it's a 4 000 year old disc that

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was found in germany

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and it shows to me that people already 4

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000 years ago

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watch the night sky and were fascinated

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with the universe and they probably

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asked the same questions that we ask

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ourselves how did the universe

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start how did life come to our planet

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earth is there life somewhere else in

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the universe

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there's a huge number of people in

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europe in the us in russia in canada in

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japan all those people that contribute

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that human space flight is actually

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possible i want to say thank you to

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everyone who helped me to arrive that

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point that i'm today i would be thinking