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hi i'm mike massimino for the past few

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shuttle flights we've taken you behind

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the scenes to meet the crews as they

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train for their flights and the people

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around the country who make those

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missions fly but there's a lot of

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footage that we haven't shown you yet so

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we'd like to take you back to some of

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our recent flights and introduce you to

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more of the people who do everything at

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nasa we hope you enjoy this episode of

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mike what's going on

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what are you doing

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i am talking to your training team

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because you guys are so busy we're very

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busy i'm about to work out y'all are you

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leaving yeah oh so you got a minute then

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what's your story with these pink shirts

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today

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these are the team scorch shirts that

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our training team came up with pretty

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nice huh they're very very nice pink is

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he says

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wait a minute i didn't know there's any

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cameras here that's not what happened to

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you know no this this is all

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store-bought in fact there's actually

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there's no

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uh free-range organic pork today because

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i ran out of time otherwise it would

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have been all right so what's in are you

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guys are here you're camping out here

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more or less for a day for a day and a

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half i mean you get to go home and sleep

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right eventually yeah but you got it but

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but you got to eat so

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and if you're going to eat you may as

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well eat good you might as well eat good

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that's right and what do we got what is

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that we got we got south carolina pulled

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apart oh my gosh what's in the other

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what's in there is that more south

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carolina oh my goodness what's in the

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ice chest

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really we'll be here a while yeah we got

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about 120 pounds of meat here this is

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yeah taxpayers are not paying for this

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food they've bought this by themselves

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my goodness

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man alive all right so uh so

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we've come a long way from donuts

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even though is in town yeah we're doing

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this today

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so we know what you're doing is out of

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town why just to mess with it

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all right

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venerable commander scorch right and uh

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there's a story behind it which is yeah

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i knew

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no idea behind uh

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the name the call sign the shirt

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everything i know the story behind the

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call sign i do and i can't i'm not going

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to tell anybody

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no i was with scorch we went out to yuma

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one of my first when we first started

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flying t-38 yeah uh scorch had a weekend

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thing yeah what's the matter do you want

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to grab the thing what you're talking

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about no no no no

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okay he had a weekend thing he had a

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weekend friend he had a weekend uh

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he had a weekend event in hume arizona

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some kind of marine corps base out there

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understood what's your name but you

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probably know you're marine corps air

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station yuma that's it okay so i first

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started you know we had only here a

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couple weeks and he goes hey max once

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you come out with me we're gonna go out

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get some flying time we'll stay over at

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the marine corps air station we fly back

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and get a bunch of hours perfect yeah i

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said yeah sure we'll go and do that so

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we went out there we met some of his

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guys and i heard the story of how he got

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his call signed but as he walks in the

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room he knows i will never tell anybody

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never tell anyone i never have time

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let's get it

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but you know what i enjoy doing scorch i

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enjoy i enjoy telling people that i know

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everyone has a kind of inspirational

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story right

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uh and i think it's important for people

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to know especially the kids to know

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right that you know not everything is

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always fine and dandy even if you're an

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astronaut that's right you know you

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there's a lot of adversity you put up

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with and the stuff that you learn the

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lessons you learn as a youngster

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are the things that will help you as you

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get older that's right that's the whole

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idea

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so true you would tell me something that

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is your birthday and you tell me

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something a story about when you were a

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kid how old are you when this happened

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this was in the high school in high

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school high school um i was a big

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baseball i loved baseball playing

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baseball

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um so we try it out for the high school

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baseball team that's right february and

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go through a few weeks of tryouts and

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plan it's in maryland it's cold at

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oakland mills high school there in

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columbia maryland and uh so they're

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finally the big day comes and the coach

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posts the list on the wall and every all

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the boys run out we're all looking at it

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and i'm like hey there's no verts on

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here what's wrong the coach must have

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missed something so i didn't make the

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baseball team

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but he said that he would let you if you

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didn't make the team he would still let

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you come out and practice with the team

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that's good he worked hard he kind of

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you know be there with the team so

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jerome jefferson was our coach and uh i

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appreciated that a lot i stuck around

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with the team this is my freshman year

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and i didn't get a lot of playing time

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but at least i got to practice and then

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some playing time and went on played

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varsity baseball in high school so

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it was very good of the coach to say

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you know hey even if you didn't make the

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team you can still hang out you can

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store a card and then it worked out for

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me later on i got to play yeah i love

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those stories because it's really two

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it's really twofold one is for those

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folks in the position as a teacher or a

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coach or a mentor or whatever

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giving people a chance based on desire

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oh yeah is is important yep and that's

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one side to work if someone really wants

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to do it i think the coaches would

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rather have a kid like that you know

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somebody who maybe has some talent but

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doesn't care and doesn't work hard so

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yeah that was that was really good of

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the coach and you know and then like i

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said i played a few more years i played

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the varsity team now i coach little

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league baseball so it worked out really

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good but the other part of it is you

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took the opportunity and then you know a

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lot of times it's easier just to quit

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you know sometimes the easy thing to do

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even though you love baseball is to quit

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but you have to be true to your passion

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right you got to stick with it and stick

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with it something maybe a little

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embarrassing everyone else made it but

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me but i'm still hanging around and well

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guys like that yeah yeah you apply i had

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to apply four and five times and it took

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me 10 years to get to be astronauts

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right so that's as i'm going to say is

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that throughout your career you went you

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you know for that experience in baseball

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and other things i'm sure you applied

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that to

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other obstacles you faced right yeah you

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know just because it doesn't work out

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the first time doesn't mean it's never

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going to work right and the same thing

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happens i'm you know i'm sure for you in

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your career

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flying astronaut answer on office i mean

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did you get maybe one of those guys you

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got picked the first time you applied um

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the first time i applied to be an

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astronaut i got you got selected yeah

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i'd rather be lucky than good right

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that's good but i got picked but that

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doesn't happen to a lot that didn't

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happen to me it took me four tries a lot

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of it everybody in my class had to wait

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eight nine right ten years to fly

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everybody in the class before us had to

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wait for eight or nine years to fly so a

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bunch of us have had to wait a long time

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yeah that's true this is your first

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flight you've been an astronaut since

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been or nine years 2000 right so you go

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on a night really nine and a half when

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you fly yeah or more yeah so that

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determination and stuff that you learn

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as a you know as a youngster

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stays with you you got to stay where

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everything you're doing all right man

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here we have stephanie turner so your

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official title is training manager right

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which means that you are in charge of

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scheduling every training event right

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for and you did it for the crew i was on

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sts-125 your favorite crew absolutely

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and you're doing it now for this uh

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scs-129 or as we've come to know them

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now since their cake cutting ceremony

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team scorch

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apparently is okay so you're doing it

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for these guys you've done it for how

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many crews now have you uh 129 is my

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third and they're also assigned to 134

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who apply next year and they're my

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fourth okay so you've had

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this you've already had two crews that

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you've gotten through training i've seen

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two crews launched two cruise lines okay

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and now you've got you're working with

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with 120 with scorching these guys and

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you're gonna go to 134. so some of the

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typical things you

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schedule are like what give us some

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examples like of uh you know training

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events like real training events

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i schedule um

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everything in building five which is

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where we are now is the shuttle

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simulators we do accent entry training

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in here and orbit in the motion base and

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the fixed base simulators and across the

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street we have another one

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everything in building nine that's all

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the mockup training which we do

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um some shuttle mockups over there

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that's more of like crew habitability

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instead of like the the actual computer

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system type of software training we do

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over here

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and then also the iss mockups for this

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crew which we didn't have for your crew

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we did some of the hubble mock-ups over

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in building nine but we never got to see

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the space station site we didn't go to

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the space station right and so which is

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awful challenging in the scheduling

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world because we have so many expedition

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crew members in training and it's

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difficult um for the shuttle sometime to

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get in and uh it's a lot of coordination

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we have a priority list you know there's

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an etiquette in who you can bump out of

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where yeah it's a lot of that's

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interesting i scheduled that um also in

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the sta aircraft i schedule flights out

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at ellington um just about anywhere the

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crew trains

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a vr lab all that kind of virtual

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reality so you handle every aspect of

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the training from the launching into

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space to the landing back on earth

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that's right to the what they're going

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to do on the shuttle to what they're

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going to do on the space station to all

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the spacecrafts you got to handle

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everything now what else we got anything

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else going on with these guys that's

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kind of interesting let's see what else

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they got um one thing that was really

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that we did earlier this year that uh

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that butch barry wilmore put together

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couple of the crew member went out and

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met some of the troops on an aircraft

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carrier

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it was it was really neat it was it was

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challenging because the carrier was

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changing locations in their operations

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coast

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but we had to coordinate when we could

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let them go in our training and then

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where the carrier was for them to be

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able to get out there get on the carrier

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do their thing and then get back in time

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you know start training again on monday

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morning and the crew for the most part

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they did most of it on their own time

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which i think is interesting you know

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because it is like you like you said all

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of our training it is hard you know at

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home and but there's some things that

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they're just so worthwhile to to go

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ahead and do and these guys decided

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that's what they were going to do on