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Space is awesome. I've loved space since I was a kid so having NASA here at the con is great.

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We love NASA!

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My experience and training and experience on the space station really demonstrates

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how Star Trek presented a template or
vision for how we were going to be doing

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space exploration in the future and that  future is now.

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You know the international program like International Space Station
you know the working with the other

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countries foreign peoples is sometimes
difficulties

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but most of the time is adding strength to the project you know
for the Star Trek we have Hikaru Sulu

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Japanese, my proud Japanese American, and also we have Russian we have Scots and

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we have African-American so those
individuals show their strength in

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certain field, eventually kind of raised
the level of the crew and that's

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exactly the same as the International
Space programs now is driving us to we

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have American, Japanese, Europeans,
Russians and Canadians all five partners

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working together for peaceful course as 
Kjell said and more than more than that we

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have flexibility and durability and
redundancy to the program that's why we

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have successful program over the last 18
years now.

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When Leonard Nimoy passed NASA
just kind of shut down

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I mean of course we're working you're
getting done but in the office everybody

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kind of drop what they were doing and they
sort of were walking

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around the halls saying

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what should,  how can we do we say something about what we're
feeling, how can we make a tribute.

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You have to realize that you became our family you
became the inspiration to us.

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And being a sort of out placed young woman who loved science, who science fiction