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an engineer a chemistry professor who

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used to be an electrician

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a soldier and a paratrooper turned

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police officer turned spacecraft

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dr oleg kotov is a russian air force

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colonel born in simferopol in the crimea

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since his father was in the soviet

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military kotov's childhood was spread

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currently saint petersburg in moscow and

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i graduated from high school in moscow

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then kotov fulfilled a family tradition

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by studying at the kirov military

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medical academy

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when he graduated with his medical

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degree and his pilot's wings his next

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career step was influenced by the

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childhood desire to become the next yuri

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i started working in the uh cosmonaut

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training center in the star city and i

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test surgeon and i also worked as an

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instructor with a specialty of space

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medicine investigating how the human

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body responds in the absence of gravity

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kotov was selected for cosmonaut

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training himself in 1996 and when he

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made his first flight in 2007 as soyuz

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commander and flight engineer on the

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international space station's expedition

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15 he fulfilled the childhood dream to

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fly higher and explore the unknown

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i wish the same like to all those young

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guys who dream

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to reach the stars there are no

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limitations it's all in your hands

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you're capable of doing it and nothing

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is impossible

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soichi naguchi was one of those young

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guys with such dreams

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the yokohama native raised in nearby

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chigasaki got hooked on space and

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adventures early on he was just in the

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first grade when he explained his future

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dreams

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i want to become a rocket pilot because

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i want to know various things about

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well i really like

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rockets and

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spacecraft and space adventures when i

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was a childhood i watched all the movies

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japanese anime which uh

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when thing was the space adventure

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naguchi kept his interest in space as he

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that interest came into focus one day

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during his freshman year in high school

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i saw the the space shuttle sts-1 go up

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on television and i thought wow this is

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a great carrier great profession i

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wonder if i can be someday like a space

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in his studies for a bachelor's and a

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master's degree in aeronautical

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engineering at the university of tokyo

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japanese astronauts did finally fly in

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space during naguchi's five years in

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private industry designing and testing

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selected him for astronaut training at

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nasa's johnson space center in houston

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his first trip to space was on the space

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shuttle's return to flight mission in

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2005 when he made three spacewalks what

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we are doing is definitely motivate the

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shuttle go up

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and pursue my scientific

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watching us and the space station

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motivated yet motivated and pursue their

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career for the science and technology

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u.s army colonel t.j creamer had a

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boyhood interest in science and

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technology but the astronaut part came

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child of the military well i started

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bouncing around with dad because dad was

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in the army and to complete that thought

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with his military career and my military

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family settled in upper marlboro

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maryland creamer was taking steps on a

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road that would lead to his career

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in elementary intermediate and high

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school my instructors

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my teachers urged me into the math and

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sciences

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i had an act i enjoyed it they pushed me

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enough to actually have seen neil

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armstrong walk on the moon so there's

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another yet another spark

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after finishing his bachelor's degree in

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chemistry at loyola college in baltimore

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while a member of the rotc creamer

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branch before completing army aviation

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school and being assigned as a

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helicopter pilot he later earned a

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masters in physics at mit

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and taught physics at west point

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and when he chose research and

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development as a secondary specialty

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creamer began receiving a new

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typical profile of an army astronaut and

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i read through that article and those

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little sparks all along the way they

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tracking and doing it unknowingly

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he was assigned to the johnson space

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center in 1995 as a space shuttle

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vehicle integration test engineer and in

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1998 he was selected to join the

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astronaut corps

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this trip to the international space

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station is creamer's first space flight

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russian air force colonel alexander

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skvortsov was born in shelkavo near

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moscow because his father's job had

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brought the family to star city a town

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with no hospital

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my father

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was a member of the cosmonaut corps not

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for too long because he had health

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issues but

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skvortsov's ambition to fly was nurtured

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growing up in a military family that

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moved from city to city and led to what

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completed study at the stavropol air

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force pilot and navigator school

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air defense academy

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scorchoff graduated the academy in 1997

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the same year he was selected for the

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cosmonaut corps and started training to

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this spirit that makes them strive for

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discoveries for research to go higher to

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go deeper that is something that allows

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this first space flight skv's also been

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studying at the russian academy of civil

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coincide with the fact that i will have

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to find space so i'll have to take a

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short break and i guess graduate the

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night tracy caldwell dyson was born in

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arcadia california and thinks of all of

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southern california as her hometown

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she remembers dreaming about space as a

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young girl but she first thought of it

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as a career when she was a high school

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student who saw a teacher christa

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mcauliffe prepare for her space flight

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something in common with this person and

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teacher is teaching me

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teachers than i do my parents

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list of things she liked

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diving board that i sprang from into

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the path that i took

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chemistry at california state university

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at fullerton where she was a sprinter

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working as an electrician for her

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father's contracting company

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environmental science

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she made her first space flight on the

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shuttle mission that delivered the s-5

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trust to the international space station

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and thinks the planet would be in better

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shape if more people could make that

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take them right in front of a window and

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have them look at that beautiful plump

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pink and blue planet as it turns from

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they they'll change their mind

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mikhail kornienko was born in the city

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of cejuan on the volga river in western

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samara just a year before yuri gagarin's

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space flight changed the world

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young boy was dreaming of being a

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his father's military job took the

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family to yujnayarolsk and when konienko

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was six his father died in a helicopter

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crash during a rescue

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mother and brother in chayabinsk when he

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the young cosmonaut school there

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school kornienko worked in a radio

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equipment plant before joining the

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soviet army and serving as a paratrooper

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then he joined the moscow militia or

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police force while studying at the

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moscow aviation institute

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he worked as a mechanical engineering

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designer before getting on at the

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baikonur cosmodrome as a launch

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equipment specialist where for a time he

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led the team responsible for servicing

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the buron spacecraft

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kornienko joined the rocket space

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corporation in nergia as an engineer in

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1995.

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he was selected for the cosmonaut corps

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in 1998 and has worked as an eva

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and of spaceflight we are going to

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planets that are close to us

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forward-looking scientists

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and other specialists

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is that we do have to continue the space