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if you do a search for the term

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renaissance man you might find a picture

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of bobby satcher

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a nasa astronaut recently returned from

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a 4.5 million mile trip to the

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international space station on sts-129

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satcher is also a surgeon with

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specialties in orthopedics and

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musculoskeletal oncology he has a phd in

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chemical engineering from mit and a

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doctorate of medicine from harvard

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medical school i think my grandmother

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made it to seventh grade and my

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grandfather made it to fifth grade or

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and so

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despite that they they understood how

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important education was and they all of

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their kids and they had a large family

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you know of of nine children and they

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all finished college and got college

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degrees and several of them of course

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went on and got advanced degrees mds

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phds

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and so

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they always stress that to us

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satcher was bit by the exploration bug

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early in life he practically grew up on

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the campus of the historically black

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hampton university in hampton virginia

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where his father was a professor

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an avid encyclopedia reader he would

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stroll the idyllic tidewater peninsula

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and imagine the possibilities i read all

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about history of exploration

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you know the europeans traveling the

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oceans and and coming to

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what we now know as the americas and

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so when i'd be out strolling along the

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seashore i would be thinking about that

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looking out thinking about you know what

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it must have been like hundreds of years

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before to

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to to put it all on the line and and to

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go out and not knowing if you would make

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it back

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not knowing what you were going to find

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and just how exciting that was satcher's

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dreams of exploring space came true in

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november 2009 as a mission specialist on

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the 31st shuttle flight to the

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international space station he performed

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two space walks for a total of 12 hours

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and 19 minutes outside the station now

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we got back to bobby satcher on the arms

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heading out to do some uh

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lubing on the tsa dr satcher's other

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passion is medicine and he's used his

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considerable medical expertise to help

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people from chicago to the african

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continent i went to

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west africa

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and spent four months working in a

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clinic in

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gabon which is a kind of a small

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country in west africa and

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had the opportunity to

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you know deliver health care to to

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groups of people who really had not had

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the privilege

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of a uh

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a reasonable what i would say is just a

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reasonable healthcare infrastructure

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most people in that country and

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unfortunately in a lot of

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uh countries that are that are the

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poorer countries in the world

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they don't have access to regular health

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care so

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you know people can go their entire

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lives and never come in contact with

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with the doctor satcher has found

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inspiration in other astronauts like the

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late dr ronald mcnair a fellow mit alum

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and south carolina native and other

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doctor astronauts like scott parazynski

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he is the recipient of numerous

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fellowships and awards including the

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leadership fellow of american academy of

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orthopedic surgeons a robert wood

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johnson foundation fellowship and