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NASA's cure for a common phobia

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presented by science at NASA NASA has

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found a cure for a common phobia the

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fear of asking quote stupid questions

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it's not a pill no therapy is required

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the cure is a rubber chicken

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school kids and even their teachers can

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find themselves tongue-tied when they

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come face to face with an astronaut or

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astrophysicists this can make it more

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difficult for NASA to reach out inspire

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and educate but nobody's afraid to talk

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to a rubber chicken says romeo durscher

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of stanford university executive

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secretary for a nasa ambassador named

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camilla who's taking classrooms by storm

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camilla knows there's no such thing as a

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stupid question says durscher outfitted

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in her own personal space suit camilla

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travels far and wide to meet with kids

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at schools science centers and even

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sci-fi conventions she helps break the

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ice for astronauts and other space

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celebrities when they meet the general

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public camilla is the perfect nASA

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spokesman says astronaut clayton

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anderson i'm one of her biggest fans

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always a big hit with the kids she makes

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science engineering technology and math

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seem appealing not threatening to youth

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of all ages

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Camila's willing to go almost anywhere

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for science earlier this year she flew

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to the edge of space to investigate a

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solar radiation storm a group of high

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school students in Bishop California

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attached radiation sensors to Camilla

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and sent her into the storm clinging to

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the payload of a helium balloon she flew

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so high 124 thousand feet on one flight

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that the daytime sky turned as black as

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night later Camilla parachuted back to

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earth where the kids continued to study

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the data she gathered we had so much fun

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working with Camilla on this experiment

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says Rachel Molina a senior at Bishop

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Union High School and a member of the

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launch team she is one cool rubber

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chicken

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one of camillus prime missions is to

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inspire girls to enter the sciences and

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it seems to be succeeding Molina plans

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to major in physics when she goes to

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college next year should I ask Camila

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for a letter of recommendation she

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wonders more than 20,000 people follow

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Camila on facebook twitter and google+

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where every adventure is an opportunity

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for science education during one visit

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to Johnson Space Center clayton anderson

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showed her the space toilet trainer der

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she recalls Camila insisted on trying it

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out she ended up getting sucked into the

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hose and stuck in the toilet luckily we

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were able to free her and we used the

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incident to teach how space toilets work

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on November 14 2012 Camilla will be in

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Australia to observe a total eclipse of

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the Sun at the end of totality she's

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going to run the solar eclipse marathon

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a 26.2 mile race that begins when the

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first ray of sunlight Lance's over the

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edge of the retreating moon as far as

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anyone knows this is the first time a

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rubber chicken has run such a race

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Camila's travel budget is very small so

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certain measures are necessary for

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reasons of economy for instance on

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airplane flights camilla travels in the

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overhead compartment I asked her to keep

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quiet says der sure but every now and

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then she lets out a disgruntled squawk I

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just sit there like I don't hear

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anything

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ultimate leader sure would like Camilla

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to join the crew of the International

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Space Station in particular he's angling

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for a berth on Soyuz expedition 40 41 if

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this happens astronaut chats from orbit

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with school kids and reporters might

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never be the same with the space-suited

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chicken floating in the background no

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one will ever be afraid to ask a

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so-called stupid question again for more