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scenes to check out some of Kennedy

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and here we are once again for the NASA

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social the first virtual International

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social for the demo2 mission with the

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Commercial Crew program I'm Joshua

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Santora when that's the communication

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welcoming you obviously this beauty

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behind me is space shuttle Atlantis the

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last one to take humans into space from

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American soil and joining me for our

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show today stepless in ski Steph how

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excited are you for launch on Wednesday

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guys could join us for the first ever

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virtual global NASA social

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I'm Stephanie place in ski with NASA

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communications and next up we're taking

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you behind the scenes of Kennedy Space

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Center's spaceport to view some of the

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most iconic locations if you have a

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question feel free to leave it in the

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comments section and we may be able to

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answer it live so like you mentioned ask

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behind the scenes to see some of the

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behind me you'll see pad 39a and over on

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can actually get to the stop by going on

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bust tour and get some photos of these

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the Apollo and shuttle astronauts used

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behind me countdown clock guests and

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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex the

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new countdown clock installed in 2014

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check-out building here at Kennedy Space

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of the space shuttle program has been

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fly into space so again some amazing

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what makes this place so great what

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makes this a spaceport that truly shines

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is the people and so join now is one of

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at the Space Center but we wanted to

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NASA social because we love for people

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to be able to connect with those that

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closer to school because we think that

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are so tell us where you work here and

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what you're doing for for KSC yeah so I

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launch services program which for those

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common genera or at least I'm learning

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all the telemetry and there's a lot that

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umbrella for what it all entails but

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uniqueness of the experiences and and

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industrial engineering along the way I

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Mexico USA and I really dedicated my

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these role models to look up to so that

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way they can see themselves doing these

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jobs one day so basically what she says

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questions please make sure you're asking

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questions as we go through the show feel

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free to send those along and Steph jump

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how did you feel when you first got your

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room and I was on training somewhere for

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a previous job and I just remember

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sitting there and at the time I hadn't

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even processed moving to Florida so for

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got the job offer I just decided you

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just given up my title is missing Mexico

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so my commitment to the state was over

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in a sense so at that point I was really

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looking okay like what's the next

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chapter what do I want to do next and

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thankfully I ended up here which I'm so

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grateful and excited to be a part of

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that's incredible thank you so much for

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sharing your story with us we have

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another question from our audience they

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want to know what advice do you have for

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someone who wants to work at NASA in the

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future I love that question I think my

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advice would would be to never give up

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on it because you know obviously NASA is

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really the pinnacle of every engineers

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dream to end up at so I would just

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really advise them to never give up on

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it I personally didn't go through the

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pathways program but I know that that's

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a great way to go about it

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so I think you know obviously now it's

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the recommends going that route but for

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me personally it was just about

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constantly looking at USAJOBS and seeing

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something that I really connected with

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and when I did going for it there's an

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intimidating thing because obviously you

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kind of mentioned it feels like the

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pinnacle of the engineering jobs in the

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world is that something where you apply

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and you're like this will never happen

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or are you like no I'm gonna go get this

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job like I got this I think for me I

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don't I guess for me you know seeing my

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mom at a younger age and being able to

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see her you she was already working at

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NASA so for me never seemed like

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something that was unattainable and

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that's an advice I would give to someone

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who ever you know wants to pursue

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working at NASA is to never limit

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themselves or think that something is

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unattainable you know always go after

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your dreams and

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and I think that's persistency is key to

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achieving whatever it is that you want

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to go for that's awesome you mentioned

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to me before we started today that part

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of getting in the pageantry I think I

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got this right part of getting in the

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pageantry was about working on some

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things you wanted to to get stronger

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with some things that you identified as

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like hey these are not my strengths I'd

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like to work on them can you talk a

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little bit about that and and just that

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reality of walking into something

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knowing like I'm not the best of this

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I'm gonna get better yeah so I decided

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to pursue pageantry because honestly I

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was for one I was terrible at public

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speaking I would choke up the second I

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would get in front of even if it was two

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people and secondly it was at a point in

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college where never my peers were

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getting internships and we're actually

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starting to interview for those

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internships and I realized I had never

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had a formal interview before so my

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friend at the time was getting ready to

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compete for Miss New Mexico and I

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decided to tag along because I knew for

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one it was going to force myself out of

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my comfort zone and what better way to

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grow than to do that and secondly you

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know I knew it was going to force me to

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attain these skills and I'm so glad it

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did because really the skills that you

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gain through pageantry are applicable

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not only within your personal life but

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they're applicable you know in the work

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place as well so very glad that I did it

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sure can you give us any more on that

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because I think that's something else

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that people would probably be interested

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to know of how do you make a move from

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pageantry to the world of NASA because

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most people see those as very much

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19-day I guess I personally never saw it

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that way and even even for young girls I

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think a part of it is not really seeing

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what a society's typical convention if

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someone is or a stereotype so I've been

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blessed in the sense that I had a really

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amazing mother who kind of broke all

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stereotypes and for that reason I didn't

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see them myself and I I never saw a

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reason why I couldn't do both that's

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awesome so Kristin obviously Wednesday

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is a huge day do you have any plans on

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being out here even working launch yeah

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so for those of you who don't know

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hanger is going to be supporting launch

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so hanger Ezell ESPYs premiere

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communication center so we provide voice

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video and data for our LSP customers or

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even for our advisory customers so demo2

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is one of them so we'll be providing

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them our

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abilities we've hosted them for

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pre-launch simulations will also host

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them for launch day and we've been

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providing them our communication

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services as well so I'll be there on

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launch day supporting CCP is with the

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hangar 18 well had you seen a rocket

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launch before you came out to take this

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job no not in person so that was awesome

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yeah so what did you member your first

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one número it was I wanna say it was GPS

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three it was okay pretty early on when I

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got here Delta four remember we'll have

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to check on that anyway but so what was

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that experience like and and obviously I

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think in the past eight months we've

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probably had close to 10 launches

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something like that so how's that been

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that has been amazing I had never

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experienced anything like that so my

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first launch like I said was GPS 3 I

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think I had only been here about 2 weeks

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but I was in the hangar and I was

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actually standing outside with my boss

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and you could just hear the rocket

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shaking the roof of the hangar and you

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could kind of feel it in your chest too

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and it's an incredible experience so

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honestly I haven't gotten tired of

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getting to see them so I'm so excited

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for Wednesday I think it's gonna be

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really awesome good yeah so we were

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having fun earlier so I'll answer this

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question and I want to ask these two

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ladies to the question is where were you

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the last time we flew humans into space

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so this is July of 2011 July of 2011 so

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I actually I was working at the time so

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I was out at the press site we were

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doing this something very similar to

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this but very much on an educational

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level doing stem engagement activities

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doing a broadcast leading up to launch

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and so I had a chance to get to see that

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in person so 9 years ago

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where were you Stephanie I was actually

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a senior in high school one of my

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biggest regrets is never asking my

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parents to drive me up to see a shuttle

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lunch because I feel like that would be

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incredible my sister used to tell me

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that she would be surfing as she got to

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watch the shuttle launches and I just

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can't even imagine what that would be

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like so I'm so pumped for Wednesday and

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Kristin yeah were you nine years ago

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- I think I was in high school or maybe

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going into high school okay I can't

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remember what I was doing at that exact

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day I wish I had a better dream but

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honestly getting to go to work with my

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mom that was enough for me and that was

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pretty awesome yeah that's that's super

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cool so for you thinking about you being

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very early in your career with us do you

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have kind of a vision for the rest of

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your career you've done a lot already

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what's what's the future hold for you as

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if right now I'm really focused on

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learning the job that I got hired for it

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and honestly I already feel so fortunate

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to be a part of the program you know LSP

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has 20 years of excellence and it's so

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incredible to be a part of a program

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that has that so as of right now I want

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to focus on doing the best job I

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possibly can for LSP and doing the job

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that I was hired for but let's see good

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very good

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all right Kristin thank you so much for

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joining us appreciate you taking the

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time to sit with us and chat hopefully

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the folks I'm sure the folks out there

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appreciate hearing again that we have a

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very diverse a diverse workforce here

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thank you so much for having me it's

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awesome to share this story hopefully it

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inspires someone out there to maybe

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pursue antigen engineering or pageantry

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if they want absolutely or both or both

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yeah very good

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all right Steph thanks for riding along

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with me as co-host thank you

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all right get ready one more show for

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the day at 4 o'clock Eastern today we

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have a really really cool lineup

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astronaut and former NASA Administrator

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Charlie Bolden astronaut Leland Melvin

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and NFL quarterback for the Jacksonville