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all right thank you uh sir i want to

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start off by uh did you always dream of

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oh that's a great question actually i

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get asked that a lot by uh uh by young

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people and um

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and uh when i was growing up of course

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uh it was i think early on in the early

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years it's sort of a too big of a dream

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for me to think about

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and uh and so i just wanted to fly and i

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thought it was something that was

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actually beyond my reach when i was a

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and if you if you did dream of being an

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astronaut how did joining the army

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i eventually ended up deciding to go to

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uh to west point which i thought was a

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great leadership school that would uh

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that teach me leadership and discipline

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and uh and allow me a chance to become a

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military pilot which was my dream uh

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when i was a young young child and so

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i dreamed of being an army helicopter

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pilot and uh and then

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it just worked out from there as i

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and you went to the uh the uh um

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test pilot school um is that where you

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uh you you learned uh that you wanted to

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be an astronaut where you got the uh the

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i think that's where everything really

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uh before that point i really thought

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that it was still sort of a dream that

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was out of my reach

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um i didn't really have the experience

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that i thought i would need as far as

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so i uh eventually

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got a chance to go to the test pilot

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school and got around people that were

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working in this industry and uh and

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people that had

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contacts at nasa and so it really worked

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okay how is commanding the space station

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different than a regular army command

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well it's a little bit different

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it's more like a small unit command and

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stand by just a second we got a little

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it's uh it's very very similar to a to a

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small unit uh command in the military uh

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we only have six people on board we have

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a lot of equipment a lot of very very

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very expensive uh and uh very uh complex

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equipment on board and so so in that

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respect it's very much like a small unit

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and uh as a commander and as an

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astronaut up on the space station what

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is your primary mission there on the

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well my primary mission now when i first

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came up in june i've been aboard the

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space station now for about four months

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and i've got two months left in my uh my

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tour up here

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and uh the first three months i was a

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flight engineer

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and really learning the systems and

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learning the science on board and now

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i took over command as the commander of

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the space station

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uh just a few weeks ago

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and uh and so now i'm the commander so

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like the commander of any unit i'm

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responsible for everything that goes on

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here and the way of conduct of science

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uh maintenance of the hardware

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keeping the the machine flying

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and so uh it's it's a real fun job and

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i've got a great uh great crew and so it

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uh what type of research are you

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that's uh that's our primary focus right

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now is the is the full utilization of

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the uh of the space station as an

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orbiting laboratory for our scientists

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and uh you know the the hope now and the

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dream that we have is to bring back

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uh to earth and to uh to the to the

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human race uh ways that we can better

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so we've got we've got a tremendous

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amount of research going on in the

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possibly finding a cure for cancer

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pharmaceuticals through the body to

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fight off different diseases that we

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face as humans on the earth we also have

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earth sciences going on on board where

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we we have special equipment that looks

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at the earth uh studies uh different and

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different hyperspectral uh uh cameras

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and things and ways that we can better

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uh be better stewards of our our

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farmland our forests and things like

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this to to better take care of our our

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planet and uh so it's we've got uh

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research on everything in between we do

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have some research research as well to

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help us to study about what happens to

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the human body when it comes to comes

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when we come to space and so

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for those our children and grandchildren

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that take us further out to other

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they'll be able to uh to be able to spin

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the research that we're doing to help

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to stay alive and

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and maintain the vehicle when they get

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to another orbiting our planetary body

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uh sir what are some of the challenges

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surprises for us that

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sometimes you can lose sight of that

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miles per hour about five miles per

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second and so and outside of this uh

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radiation and things and so we have

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temperature swings on outside of the

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space station that can change by as much

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as 500 degrees and 45 minutes because

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minutes and so and then direct sunlight

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outside uh faces temperatures of up to

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300 degrees fahrenheit and then when we

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go into eclipse when the bag on the back

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during the cold war and then being able

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to uh to work together hand in hand with

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to be able to to be able to look back

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and um and see where we've come from you

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my service in the army uh back to the

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and uh how far we've come now uh working

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together as partners it's really really

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encouraging and it's um it i think it

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those that have gone before us

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that have paved this way for us and now

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will be transitioning to uh to passing

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that torch to our kids and our grandkids

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that hopefully they can continue this

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this partnership in space and that would

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disappointed me at all it's uh there are

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a lot of personal and professional uh

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as an army officer and as an aviator

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to be able to be the commander of the

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about as high as i can reach now

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in the way of my goals and dreams uh

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to experience uh not only get a chance

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work in space i had a shuttle mission

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very challenging being away from home

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people what my favorite planet is i

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favorite but when you're when you're out

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here in space when you're even inside of

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the space station and outside of a

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chance to do several space walks

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uh when you look at deep space it's so

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dark and so vast it's actually pretty

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when the when it's here as well

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the colors there it's pretty much a lack

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very very sterile uh feel

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and then you turn towards the earth

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and it's like this explosion of color an

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explosion of motion and an explosion of

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in the middle of this vast

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wasteland of nothing and so um it's it's

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quite a dramatic um

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contrast looking at the earth as com as

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compared to the back background of deep

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space and so it's uh it really takes

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her on humanity uh whenever you're

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it does it uh you know it makes you it

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makes you think about you know the

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things that we worry about and the

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things that we concern ourselves with uh

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you know petty differences and things

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squabble over both as people

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and uh and things and so it makes you

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you know of course when you look down

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and you and you begin you know the these

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petty differences uh that you think

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about and the things that you worry

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about uh when you're on earth they seem

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to sort of fade away

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and you you begin to look at things in

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in a in a broader picture it's like wow

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you know it's like we're all trying to

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kind of live together and cooperate and

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and work together

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on this little blue marble in the middle

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of space and

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and sometimes i think we we

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tend to lose perspective

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that uh we have a beautiful place to

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live

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and i know that sometimes we're not good

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stewards of that uh of that uh

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our home

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it puts things in perspective that uh

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that there truly are no borders and uh

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the borders that we make are are

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man-made and and um

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both

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you know physical borders between

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countries and also uh cultural and um

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and uh and just like emotional borders

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that we put up between between peoples

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and so it helps to peel those things

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uh sir what's next for you personally

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and professionally when you come back to

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well that's a good question i'm still

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active duty army

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i i belong to the army space and missile

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defense command

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which is actually uh interestingly

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enough as a is uh we're a descendant of

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the original um army ballistic missile

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agency that warner von braun worked uh

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worked with

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in the huntsville area and which brought

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us our very first

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uh the us its very first satellite

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explorer one and so the army really was

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first in space and uh and the unit that

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i work for now uh general campbell and

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the uh and the army space and missile

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defense command

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um

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very very much as their is our

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we're very much the first in space and

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so so i'm looking for opportunities

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maybe to come back out into the army to

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serve and

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and if those are opportunities aren't

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available for me when i get back

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i'll

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consider staying with nasa and maybe

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maybe get a chance to fly again aboard

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the space station

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sir do you think anything could possibly

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it would be hard to imagine something

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that would top this i have to pinch

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myself every day

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especially when you get a chance to look

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out the window um

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it's uh

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it's i feel very blessed uh to be here i

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i feel you know there the just a whole

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range of emotions uh being here of

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course i i i love the army and my

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experiences in the army and so i've got

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a lot of my

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uh my classmates from west point folks

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that i've served with with over the

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years

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that are scattered around the globe a

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lot of them in afghanistan and some in

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iraq and uh just stationed around the

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globe

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and so i feel uh and and that's the net

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light i feel a bit guilty from time to

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time that

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that i get a chance to experience this

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and um

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but i know that uh

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that it's an opportunity of a lifetime

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as well and that that i can i can uh

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serve our army and serve uh our country

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here as well uh just by doing uh doing a

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fantastic job here as commander and also

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doing the research that's needed here

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aboard the space station so um

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i uh i'm looking forward to different

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opportunities when i get when i get back

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to the planet and um and it's just a

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real thrill to be able to uh to stay in

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in service to the army and service to

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our country uh here aboard the space

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station

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well uh sir from soldiers magazine and

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from soldiers radio and television i

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want to thank you for your time and good

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luck uh up there and uh

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maybe we'll see you whenever you get

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absolutely thanks a lot i really

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appreciate it i really appreciate

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everything that you do for our soldiers

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uh stationed around the globe and um

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it's always uh uh you you give us a real

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connection uh back home and uh and and

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really to the army as a core

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and uh and you uh you bind us together

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and and keep that um

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and keep that brotherhood strong and we

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really appreciate everything that you do

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for us at soldiers magazine thank you so

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you soldiers magazine and soldiers