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the six-person crew of endeavour is

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delivering the node three tranquility

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and the cupola modules to the

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international space station on sts-130

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in essence closing out construction of

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first time mission commander george

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zamka is making his second space flight

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the marine colonel was born in jersey

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city but has also lived in new york city

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irvington new york medellin colombia and

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rochester hills michigan

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zamka considers all of those places to

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be his hometowns and says it was a

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special feeling seeing some of them from

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orbit during his most recent mission

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sts-120 in 2007.

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when you leave your hometown you always

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i think have that sense that you're

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you're going away from it and you're

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wondering when's the next time you'll

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you'll be back

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and it was neat when i did see those

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places zamka holds a bachelor's degree

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in math from the u.s naval academy and a

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masters in engineering management from

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florida institute of technology

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his service overseas as a fighter pilot

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includes tours of duty in korea

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singapore southwest asia kuwait and iraq

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zamka who was selected as an astronaut

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in june 1998 is proud to be heading up

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the crew that is putting on the final

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touches to the international space

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station now when we attach node 3

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the appearance of the station is going

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to change forever so uh the the space

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station will become what we have wanted

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it to be a workplace for science and

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with all the environmental systems that

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we need to sustain

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terry verts is the cruise pilot the

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maryland native who grew up in the city

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of columbia is making his first space

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flight something he's had a desire to do

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since learning about the apollo program

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in kindergarten my parents worked at the

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goddard space flight center so that

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wasn't directly involved in apollo or

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the human space flight but

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there were rockets and talk of space and

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so at a really young age

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i was interested in space and being an

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astronaut the u.s air force colonel

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holds an undergraduate degree in math

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with a minor in french from the u.s air

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force academy and an advanced degree in

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aeronautics from embry rental

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aeronautical university he has flown

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fighter jets in the us france korea and

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germany since being selected as an

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astronaut in july 2000 verts has been a

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capsule communicator or capcom on

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several missions which has given him a

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true appreciation for the work that

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happens behind the scenes flying space

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shuttles is

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a complicated thing it's it requires a

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lot of very smart and talented people

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from the people who do the manufacturing

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to the engineers managers who make

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decisions

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and it's the people here that make it

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sts-130 is the second space flight for

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kay heyer a captain in the navy reserve

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the native of mobile alabama flew on the

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16-day sts-90 neurolab mission in 1998.

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one of the things she's looking forward

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to on this mission is getting up close

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and personal with the international

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space station to see it in

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real life if you will

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with our own eyes it's just going to be

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very exciting and we're going to

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certainly have a lot of cameras out and

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and getting pictures as we

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as we approach the international space

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station as well as when we undock from

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the international space station heyer

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earned a bachelor's in engineering

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resources management from the u.s naval

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academy and a master's in space

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technology from florida institute of

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in 1993 she became the first female in

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the military assigned to a combat air

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crew flying patrols in the atlantic and

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the caribbean

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she didn't initially consider the navy

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or becoming an astronaut because at one

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time there were no women in those

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careers however

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when those opportunities became

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available to me that's when i started

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realizing wow this is something that i

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could do and i could apply for

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dr steve robinson is a veteran of three

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space shuttle missions

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sts-85 in 1997 sts-95 in 1998 and the

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sts-114 return to flight mission in

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2005.

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the northern california native was also

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a backup member of the international

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space station's expedition 4 crew

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robinson has plenty of space flight

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memories but one of his most defining

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experiences was seeing his first shuttle

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launch in person which was after he

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became an astronaut i'll never forget

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hearing and feeling and feeling the

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crack

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the sound is almost too big for the air

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to handle

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and uh and the light is almost too

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bright for your eyes to comprehend and

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you see this 20 story building size

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thing leap off the ground and go

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shooting off into the into the sky it's

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something you i didn't really expect i

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robinson says aviation has always been a

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big part of his life he completed a

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double major in mechanical and

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aeronautical engineering at uc davis and

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a master's and a phd in mechanical

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engineering at stanford he was working

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as a nasa scientist when he was selected

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as an astronaut in december 1994.

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robinson who has also worked as a

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graphic artist a surveyor and a radio

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disc jockey says what he likes about

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this crew is its versatility you know

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this person has a skill that maybe i

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don't have and vice versa and so the

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complementary skills going together in

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this crew has come

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come together to bond us into a team

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that you know we feel like we're really

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nicholas patrick a doctor of philosophy

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and mechanical engineering is one of the

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space walkers on the crew

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this is patrick's second space flight he

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patrick a citizen of both the u.s and

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the united kingdom was born in the

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yorkshire moors near the home of james

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cook the captain of the famed 18th

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century sailing vessel endeavour we

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would go walking in the yorkshire moors

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and go and see the monument that was

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erected to him and that's one of the one

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of my earliest memories actually of

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wanting to be an explorer

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he began with sailing an interest that

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was eventually replaced by a fascination

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with aviation

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patrick learned to fly as a member of

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the royal air force's cambridge

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university squadron he holds three

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degrees in addition to his phd a

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bachelor's and a master's in engineering

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from cambridge and a masters from

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massachusetts institute of technology

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patrick who designed jet engines and

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cockpits before coming to nasa in august

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1998 says that all of his years of study

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were worth it i obviously was at school

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and into my 30s getting a phd in

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mechanical engineering so education has

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played a very important role in my

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becoming an astronaut and my continuing

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to be an astronaut and i think it would

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have played an important role whatever i

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united states air force lieutenant

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colonel bob bankin the lead space walker

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on the crew is making his second space

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flight he flew on sts-123 in 2008

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banking grew up in saint anne missouri

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and says doing construction work there

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for several summers taught him the value

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of hard work

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but it also taught him something else

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i saw the benefit to an engineering

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education and how i could be the guy who

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was designing how things were going to

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be done versus the guy who just

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implemented him after somebody else

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worked out the details he applied the

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work ethic he learned to pursuing that

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education earning two bachelor's degrees

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one in mechanical engineering and one in

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physics from washington university and a

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master's and a ph.d from california

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institute of technology

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bank and joined the air force as a

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developmental engineer designing and

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he was working at the air force test

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pilot school when nasa selected him as

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an astronaut in july 2000

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