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an army aviator a physicist and a

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paratrooper turned police officer turned

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spacecraft engineer Russian Air Force

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colonel Alexander Skvortsov was born in

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Chell Kevon near Moscow because his

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father's job had brought the family to

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Star City a town with no hospital my

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father was a member of the cosmonaut

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health issues but still I heard many

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good things about it and the the idea of

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space has always been very strong and

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strongly present in our families sports

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ops ambition to fly was nurtured growing

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up in a military family that moved from

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city to city and led to what he calls a

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pretty standard educational path after

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high school in more shots he completed

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study at the Stavropol Air Force pilot

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and navigator school spent seven years

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in the National Air Defense Force then

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studied at the military red banner air

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defense academy scored self graduated

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the Academy in 1997 the same year he was

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selected for the cosmonaut Corps and

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started training to fulfill his boyhood

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ambition that makes him strive for

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discoveries or research to go higher to

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go deeper there is something that allows

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us to do in the years he's been

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preparing for this first spaceflight

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squirt saw has also been studying at the

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russian academy of civil service to

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my college Finals coincide with the fact

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that I will have to find space so I'll

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have to take a short to break and I

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guess graduate the after that

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Tracy Caldwell Dyson was born in Arcadia

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California and thinks of all of Southern

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California as her hometown she remembers

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dreaming about space as a young girl but

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she first thought of it as a career when

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she was a high school student who saw a

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teacher Christa McAuliffe prepare for

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her spaceflight you start to realize

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that I've got something in common with

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this person and a teacher has the right

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stuff and the teachers teaching me all

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day long I spend more time with my

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teachers that I do my parents then it

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became very interesting to me nearing

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graduation and unsure of what she wanted

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to be dyson took her parents advice and

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made a list of things she liked being

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athletic studying science working with

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tools learning languages and cultures

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when I looked at that list and then I

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looked at what astronauts were we're

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doing this seems like a pretty good

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match and that was the diving board that

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I sprang from into college and graduate

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school and the path that I took dyson

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chemistry at California State University

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at Fullerton where she was a sprinter

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and long jumper on the track team while

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working as an electrician for her

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father's contracting company she

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completed her doctorate in chemistry at

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the University of California at Davis

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and won a postdoctoral fellowship in

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environmental science before being

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selected as an astronaut in 1998 she

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shuttle mission that delivered the s5

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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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trip you know you take the firmest

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believer in not having humans in space

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and you launch them and you take them

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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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sunrise to sunset and they'll change

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mikail Kornienko was born in the city of

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citron on the Volga River in western

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Samara just a year before Yuri Gagarin

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space flight changed the world and then

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and every young boy was dreaming of

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being a cosmonaut I was not an exception

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especially because my father was a

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rescue helicopter pilot his father's

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military job took the family to use know

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you're all scanned when Kornienko was

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six his father died in a helicopter

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crash during a rescue the young boy

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years and then joined his mother and

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brother in China Binh ski when he

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started the seventh grade one year

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before he was old enough to enroll at

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the young cosmonauts school there I

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young and we were studying navigation

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parachute jumping after high school

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plant before joining the Soviet Army and

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serving as a paratrooper then he joined

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the Moscow militia or police force while

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studying at the Moscow Aviation

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engineering designer before getting on

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at the 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 Braun's spacecraft Kornienko joined

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the rocket space corporation Energia as

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an engineer in 1995 he was selected for

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the cosmonaut Corps in 1998 and has

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worked as an Eevee a specialist while

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preparing for his first spaceflight and

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planets that are close to us and a

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specialist is that we do have to

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continue the space exploration and it

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has to be human we have to see the space

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with human eyes Colonel Doug Wheelock

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one year before Alan Shepards mercury

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flight and grew up in the nearby town of

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Windsor I was nine years old when we

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first landed Apollo 11 on the moon and I

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thought wow that that is really awesome

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and but I never thought that that was

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that 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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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 earned a Bachelor of

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Science in applied science and

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the top of the list of leadership

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schools and I really wanted to I really

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wanted to to experience what it's like

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to be trained as a leader it gave me the

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opportunity to come out and really start

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right into aviation once he was

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commissioned and spent a year in the

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infantry after graduating at the top of

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in the Pacific and an assignment as an

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development engineer before earning a

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Master of Science in aerospace

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engineering from Georgia Tech and then

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training and and get exposed to and meet

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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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pilots and and I thought you know that's

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know I think I might try to do that he

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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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flight changed the world and on his very

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answer when the teacher asked the

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children what they wanted to be like

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be ho keeper in Soviet command he told

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profession about profession I wanted to

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be a cosmonaut like everybody he really

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a local school named for the designer of

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the early Soviet space vehicles by the

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time he finished high school yurchikhin

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had decided to study engineering rather

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pilot who developed health problems

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for which college to attend when I

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radiated most affiliation Institute of

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course more chance to go he graduated

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the Moscow Aviation Institute as a

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mechanical engineer specializing in

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aerospace vehicles and immediately

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the MIR shuttle program in 1997 he was

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Moscow service State University

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commander of expedition 15 completing

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mission and pursuing his interest in

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fly in space she was born one day after

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Edie White became the first American to

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walk in space during the first space

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Houston growing up in the town that came

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to be known as space city had an impact

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on her I was quite young when we first

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four but we did watch it on TV and I

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think that just set the seed right then

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thing to do and then growing up in

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backyard I was always aware of the space

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program and so I just decided to pursue

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it walkers 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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she took a leave of absence to get her

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master's and doctorate in space physics

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at Rice and then had to make a decision

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so I wanted to be part of the human

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spaceflight program or do I want to be

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and I decided I really enjoy the human

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spaceflight program so I was able to

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and continue my work as a flight

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controller she joined the International

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Space Station program in 1995 to work on

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robotics integration and move to the

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engineering side three years later to

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manage teams coordinating an orbit

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problem resolution she spent a year in

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Moscow working with the Russian space

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agency and its contractors on avionics

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integration and returned to Houston to

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become the technical lead for the

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station's mission evaluation room

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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 how do

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you have a life support system that can

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work for long periods of time and

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provide you with the water and the

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atmosphere

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that you need how do you grow plants in

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space obviously we can't keep calling

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back to earth for the next pizza

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delivery so we've got to figure out how

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to be self-sufficient off the planet and