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each of the expedition 24 crew members

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who will be on orbit to mark the first

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10 years of continuous human presence on

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the international space station already

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has a connection to space flight history

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in their own backgrounds

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colonel doug wheelock united states army

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was born in binghamton new york exactly

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one year before alan shepard's mercury

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flight and grew up in the nearby town of

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i was nine years old

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when we first landed apollo 11 on the

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and i thought wow that

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that is really awesome

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but i never thought that that was that

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dream was like way too big for me

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because i i was just like an ordinary

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kid in a tiny little town growing up in

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that tiny town population less than a

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thousand even today

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wheelock developed an appreciation for

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hard work for service to others and a

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love of flying all of which led him to

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the united states military academy at

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west point where he earned a bachelor of

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science in applied science and

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engineering i knew that west point was

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the top the top of the list of

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leadership schools and i really wanted

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trained as a leader it gave me the

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opportunity to come out and really

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start right into aviation once he was

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commissioned and spent a year in the

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after graduating at the top of his

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flight school class wheelock had

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postings as an army aviator in the

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pacific and an assignment as an advanced

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weapons research and development

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engineer before earning a master of

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science in aerospace engineering from

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georgia tech and then moving on to the

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navy test pilot school when i was able

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to go through test pilot training and

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different test pilots from various

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services and i got to meet some of the

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astronauts that had formerly been test

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that's something that i could do as well

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you know i think i might try to do that

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he was selected as an astronaut in 1998

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and worked in many areas of the

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international space station program

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wheelock made three spacewalks on his

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first flight the 2007 shuttle mission

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that delivered the harmony module and

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fyodor yurchikhin was born in the

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georgian city of batumi one day before

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the first spaceship that ever escaped

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earth's gravity flew past the moon

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he was two years old when yuri gagarin

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space flight changed the world

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and on his very first day in school he

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had a ready answer when the teacher

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like everybody of in my class

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profession i ask you about profession ah

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about profession i wanted to be a

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like everybody he really did

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and he started by choosing to attend a

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local school named for the designer of

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the early soviet space vehicles

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yurchikhin had decided to study

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engineering rather than become a pilot

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reasoning that a pilot who developed

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health problems would be out of the

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space program altogether but an engineer

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i graduated moscow foundations

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he graduated the moscow aviation

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institute as a mechanical engineer

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specializing in aerospace vehicles and

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space corporation inergia first as a

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flight controller and then as an

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engineer eventually becoming lead

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engineer for the mere shuttle program

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cosmonaut core and while training for

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space flight he also finished a phd in

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economics at moscow service state

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yurchikhin spent 11 days in space on the

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2002 shuttle mission that delivered the

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s-1 trust to the international space

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station and he returned in 2007 as

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commander of expedition 15 completing

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three spacewalks during that six-month

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mission and pursuing his interest in

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studying earth from orbit

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it's ecological program geophysical

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it's a task too

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shannon walker is the first native of

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houston to fly in space

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she was born one day after ed white

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became the first american to walk in

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space during the first space flight ever

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run by mission control in houston

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known as space city had an impact on her

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on the moon i was i just turned four but

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we did watch it on tv and i think that

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set the seed right then that that would

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be a really interesting thing to do and

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then growing up in houston and always

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center in my backyard i was always aware

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of the space program and so i just

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decided to pursue it

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walker stayed in houston for college

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earning a bachelor of arts in physics

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from rice university and got her first

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job out of school as a robotics flight

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controller at the johnson space center

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she took a leave of absence to get her

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masters and doctorate in space physics

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at rice and then had to make a decision

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do i want to be part of the human space

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flight program or do i want to be part

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of the unmanned space flight program and

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i decided i really enjoy the human space

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light program so i was able to come back

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to the johnson space center and continue

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she joined the international space

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station program in 1995 to work on

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robotics integration and moved to the

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engineering side three years later to

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manage teams coordinating on orbit

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she spent a year in moscow working with

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the russian space agency and its

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contractors on avionics integration

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and returned to houston to become the

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technical lead for the station's mission

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walker was selected for the astronaut

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corps in 2004 to help prepare humans to

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someday live off of planet earth

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atmosphere that you need

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self-sufficient off the planet and that