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hi my name is alonzo g i'm currently

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with defense contract management agency

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i'm a project and systems engineer my

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favorite memory is my first memory of

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shuttle launches that was sts 92 i

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believe in october the 11th of 2000 7 17

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p.m it was my first launch uh i was

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working at the booster launch operations

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center which is considered the fourth

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firing room

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and i got off at 6 15 p.m and i remember

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going over to the vab and there was a

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crowd there and i didn't know where to

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stand and where to go but then all of a

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sudden i heard the countdown i saw the

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flash and

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it all made it worthwhile i have so much

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more respect for all the men and women

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that work out here and all that they do

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just to get that shuttle launch up those

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minute and 22 seconds that it takes for

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those boosters to separate takes years

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and years worth of work and energy and

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that's that'll always be my favorite