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good afternoon and welcome back to the

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space vehicle mock-up facility at

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johnson space center

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we are here with 12 new brand new

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astronaut candidates who are going to

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make up the 2017 astronaut candidate

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class and we have just a little while

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with them for folks here in the audience

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to ask questions but before we do i'm

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going to go through their names one more

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time and then we will get started um so

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we have here with us today kayla barron

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and we're going to go in alphabetical

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xena cardman

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raja chari

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matthew dominic

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bob hines

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warren woody hoberg

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johnny kim

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rob cooling

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jasmine mobelli

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laurel o'hara

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frank rubio

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so we have i believe mike ready for you

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to ask questions with um if you can

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raise your hands and let us know where

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if you have a question and we um be sure

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give us your name and affiliation and if

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you can direct your question to the

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candidate you want to answer it

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all right let's go here

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hi robert pearlman with collectspace.com

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and space.com a question for all of you

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i wonder how many of you knew that you

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wanted to be an astronaut when you were

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a kid if there was any specific memory

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that inspired that

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if you attended space camp or if there

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was some other experience that

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yeah absolutely i don't know that there

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was a specific defining point uh i know

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there's a i was always interested in

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aviation

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our their pictures in our photo albums

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of me back when i was uh you know one or

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two at the munich airport with my nose

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pressed up against the windows watching

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uh watching the airplanes out there so

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aviation was always in it

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and then the first memory i have about

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space flight was really watching sts-1

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and it was on tv and i just remember

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being absolutely amazed with it

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i tell people quite a bit that

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you know if you asked me when i was a

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kid what i wanted to be when i grew up i

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would have said a pilot because the

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astronaut thing was not even on the

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radar for me as in terms of being

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possible uh had you rephrased it and

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said do you want to be an astronaut i'd

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uh but i did get to attend space camp uh

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at one point and it was uh it just

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fanned that flame uh you know that that

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interest in getting down there and

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being able to see big hardware like the

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stuff you see around here

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uh it it just fanned that flame and i

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right here and also i forgot to mention

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that we do have also with us chris

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cassidy who was the deputy chair of the

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astronaut selection board in case we

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have any astronaut selection related

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questions that the candidates don't know

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the inside scoop on go ahead hi everyone

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uh congratulations my name is carl clark

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i'm with inspace on the left so i have

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one question about propulsion for you

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kayla considering you were on subs and

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nuclear propulsion is a big deal there

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using ion electric with a fission

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reactor um i know that was your degree

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field correct or i'm asking the wrong

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person i was trying to remember

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everybody that was listed off earlier i

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remember there was a nuclear physicist

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graduate degree i'm working on a thorium

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technology that nasa is working on for

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propulsion for deep space exploration

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mars or the moon and also potentially to

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propel vehicles but it's kind of our

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i don't know a ton about it yet but i

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can say that i'm really excited to be a

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part of nasa's super exciting and

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phenomenal team and contribute in any

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way i can of course sir i'd love to be

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assigned any projects related to nuclear

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that's a few years down the road once we

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eric berger with ars technica so the

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last class in 2013

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uh came in and i think they were told

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i'm curious during the interview process

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what you were told about you know

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destinations or vehicles or what you

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vehicles that we've been told as you

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starliner the international space

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maybe a little unclear we're just happy

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to be here finish our candidate training

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venture out to deep enough to space in

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all right mark

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uh thank you i'm mark caro with uh

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aviation week

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and i don't know if two of you

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would self-select but i'm interested in

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in how you think your group

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differs maybe significantly from some of

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the earlier astronaut groups there's

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backgrounds and professional

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skills that are appropriate for longer

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missions and so a lot of us have a

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background or experience doing similar

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working on submarines for kayla so

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congratulations and

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my name is keisha rogers and i work with

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21st century science and technology

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the vice president earlier mentioned the

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inspirational words of president john f

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kennedy who um i don't know if you guys

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know this but he turned would have

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this year on may 29th and

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uh right you guys are a very

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extraordinary selection of candidates

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because you came out of 18 000

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candidates and my question to you is

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what is your inspiration you know

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awesome to be part of a the first person

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to do something new whether a new planet

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those things but more so it's about

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being part of the team working on tough

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problems i think we talked a moment ago

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about how diverse a background how may

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that love to solve tough problems uh

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because they're hard and so moving

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solve those problems you don't have to

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hi my name is ray vitor and i'm with

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the questions for laurel and

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as the only the second native houstonian

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about houston is the home of the space

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trips to johnson space center and then

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involvement with nasa that i just stuck

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all right i think we have some questions

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from social media now all right we got a

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couple questions from social media on

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facebook greta wants to know

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my third grade class in houston texas

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wants to know what's the first thing you

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want to do in space

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a victory dance for getting there

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i'd say check out the view

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i think it

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yes check out the view but also make

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all right we have another one from tracy

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wants to know what internship

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experiences prepared you most for this

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i know we have a few who have interned

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at nasa before and i'm guessing there

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are some other nasa or internships mixed

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in yeah i didn't intern directly at nasa

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but i had a lot of

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funding and support for internships and

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field experiences from

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space grants especially the north

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carolina space grant and later the

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pennsylvania space grant um and so these

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experiences took me to british columbia

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to work for the pavilion lake research

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project which is a nasa and canadian

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space agency project using a lake there

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to draw analogies for space exploration

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learning how to conduct science under

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the constraints of a space mission

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and that was incredibly helpful and let

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me meet a lot of people who actually

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work for nasa including several

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astronauts which was just an awesome

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i had the pleasure of getting to do two

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internships for nasa and that that was

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definitely a huge piece of what drove my

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interest in understanding the the

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culture and the the work ethic of the

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folks here uh so in uh while i was at

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the academy i got to work at goddard

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space flight center at the time on what

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was the what was called the time the

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space infrared telescope facility and i

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was pretty much you know one of my tasks

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was to make an acronym list so i was by

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no means uh cutting-edge engineering i

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was basically like a aaron boy go do but

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it was awesome just to be a part of that

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and then in grad school i worked on some

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of the mars sample return mission uh

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algorithms uh for how to how to do an

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autonomous orbital rendezvous and again

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it was just uh the exposure to the folks

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in that case at jpl and uh really

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reinforced for me that this is the

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community that i want to be a part of uh

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and that's why i'm you know still

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beaming that you know we've got the

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opportunity to be such a part of such an

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amazing team uh here at johnson at nasa

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just it's just gonna be an awesome uh

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awesome future in front of us and for

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the agency

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jessica had something as well uh yeah

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just really quick i also have done

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several internships at nasa i've worked

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at nasa ames working on the phoenix mars

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lander looking at at martian soil

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i've also done three internships at

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the jet propulsion laboratory in

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pasadena working on uh the also mars

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sample return and mars 2020 the upcoming

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rover um as well as uh msl the mars

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science laboratory rover and also

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working on some asteroid work looking at

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neowise the neowise mission

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and all of these opportunities have been

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really beneficial in in providing me the

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experience i think has helped me get

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here and as well as the understanding of

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what raja was was mentioning the the

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teamwork aspect of it and and how much

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nasa works together to accomplish the

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all right question over here hi my name

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is lindsay henry i'm a reporter with fox

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26 and congrats first off i'm so excited

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for all of y'all and to be here so thank

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you my question's for robert hines

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robert you are the only astronaut right

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now or the future astronaut the new

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astronaut that currently works for nasa

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um so has becoming an astronaut been

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something that was your goal from the

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very beginning and to finally reach that

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goal how does it feel

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uh actually no uh i didn't really learn

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about it until i got hired here that

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there uh i don't want to say there's a

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long history but there's certain

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precedent for people that were doing the

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research pilot job

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to have been picked up it's been

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25 years i think since the last

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somewhere around there since the last

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individual was was selected out of the

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aircraft operations division out there

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so uh actually what drove what brought

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me down here uh i mean obviously there

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was a job opening uh so

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uh

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but i it really appealed to me because

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you know like all of us are alluding to

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we've seen nasa the whole time growing

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up and we've heard about all the great

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things that they do

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and

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know being a part of the team down here

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that was one thing i told my previous

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employer when i left i was like yeah i'm

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going to be a tiny little cog in this

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giant space wheel but that's worth it

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you know it's going to be so cool to get

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down there and be able to train the

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astro these guys in the airplanes

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was just really exciting to me and then

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i got here and i'm like holy cow someone

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actually came from this job and went

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into the astronaut office

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and then i put the glimmer of hope out

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there and then once i started getting

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wind of their uh being a astronaut uh

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selection coming up i thought all right

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that was my chance i'm the i'm the old

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guy on the board here

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right now so i knew the clock was

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ticking on me but uh thankfully it all

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worked out and it's a blessing to be

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here

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have you given your fellow classmates

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any tips on moving to houston

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uh yes uh we've we've been talking about

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places to live and obviously the the

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whole clear lake friendswood area down

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here is just amazing and you can't

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really go wrong right the school

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districts are great

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and the nasa influence and the whole

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coming out of the military we're very

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rarely in urban areas near big cities

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and so for us when we got down here we

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were sure how we would handle it

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but we absolutely love the the area the

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houston community and the sense of

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community around here even though it's a

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big city is is really awesome and the

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support that everybody has for nasa

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the whole houston area

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really seems to support nasa so it's

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eric berger again with arch technica a

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question for rob can you talk about what

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you did at spacex what you worked on and

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then

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you're actually actually going to ride

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i'll uh all right on whatever spacecraft

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i can go on i'm pretty confident the

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processes as a whole to uh to get us

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there safely um

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so during my tenure in spacex i started

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out doing design and analysis of various

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systems on falcon 9.

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so actually you know started kind of the

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base level there got involved in

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actually building some of the first v

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1.1 vehicle that flew

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gosh it was 2012 or 2013 a while back

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worked operations for the structures

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department worked

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launch operations and then most recently

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i've been running the launch chief

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engineering group and what we call

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flight reliability

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and the whole you know part of flight

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reliability is really to try to make

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sure things don't go wrong

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and when they unfortunately do like in

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the flight 29

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failure this this last fall is to try to

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run those things to the ground to make

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sure they don't happen again

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you know even before i got lucky enough

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to get a phone call a couple weeks ago

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you know my whole goal coming out of

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that and i would say the team's whole

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goal was to make sure that the falcon 9

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was as reliable

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and successful as possible

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for spacex's commercial partners but

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also of course very importantly for the

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crew

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that'll fly on that vehicle

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and i think it's something that just

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helped us grow stronger and let me go

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you have one right here as well

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how many of you hope to be on the first

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have you gotten a look at the orion

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all right question up here

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uh carl clark again within space on the

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left uh kind of along the same vein is

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that if you could imagine yourself

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discovering one thing in your career as

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an astronaut kind of what would you like

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it to be given your very diverse

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background of engineering science

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physics all that kind of good stuff is

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there something you could discover what

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i think for me

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one of the things that that's always

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kind of drawn me to space is the the

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different view

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that

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it seems like space must must give you

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right so trying to look

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from space down on earth and realizing

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how delicate this planet is and

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honestly i think

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less of a discovery of something new but

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more of discovering a way to really

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express that to all the people across

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the planet i think that would be

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something amazing

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if we could really try to help people

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realize

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that borders are something that we

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create

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and they're not natural um i think

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we would just make you know the world a

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better place so if we could discover a

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way to kind of spread that that

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understanding or knowledge that'd be

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incredible

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and it looked like woody maybe wanted to

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say something well i i don't think that

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was a great answer uh

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um so i i'm an engineer and one of the

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things that i've found about

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throughout my whole career is that

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just to expect the unexpected and so

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that's kind of the very nature of

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discovery is hey we don't know what

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we're going out to find but it's going

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to be really cool when we do so

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go ahead

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hi robert perlin with

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collectspacespace.com again um you're

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about in august you'll begin two years

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of basic training is there any

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particular experience you're really

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looking forward to is there any

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particular thing that you know about the

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astronaut experience that you're not

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really looking forward to working at the

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neutral buoyancy lab and hopping in the

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spacesuit and pretending to do

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i'm actually really looking forward to

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learning the russian language i think

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the chance to learn a new language as an

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adult is a pretty amazing opportunity

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and then from there getting to do all of

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this international collaboration and

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traveling abroad to other centers to

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learn from them i think that's going to

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if there's one thing i've learned in the

559
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last 48 hours it's how cool it is to be

560
00:21:07,190 --> 00:21:05,679
a naval aviator

561
00:21:07,630 --> 00:21:07,200
so i'm really looking forward to flying

562
00:21:11,190 --> 00:21:07,640
jets

563
00:21:12,630 --> 00:21:11,200
[Laughter]

564
00:21:17,350 --> 00:21:12,640
anyone got anything they're not looking

565
00:21:21,909 --> 00:21:19,909
all right space toilet another question

566
00:21:23,350 --> 00:21:21,919
from social media now

567
00:21:25,990 --> 00:21:23,360
a couple more i know we've touched on

568
00:21:28,310 --> 00:21:26,000
this earlier but it's worth reiterating

569
00:21:30,470 --> 00:21:28,320
tj on facebook wants to know how many of

570
00:21:38,870 --> 00:21:30,480
you were inspired in part by the nasa

571
00:21:41,990 --> 00:21:40,470
absolutely

572
00:21:44,549 --> 00:21:42,000
i was in when i was university of san

573
00:21:46,470 --> 00:21:44,559
diego i put in a request and put a

574
00:21:47,750 --> 00:21:46,480
proposal in and got to do the reduced

575
00:21:50,310 --> 00:21:47,760
gravity student flight opportunities

576
00:21:51,430 --> 00:21:50,320
program and came out here to ellington

577
00:21:53,270 --> 00:21:51,440
and that i think is through the

578
00:21:55,430 --> 00:21:53,280
education office uh incredible

579
00:21:56,630 --> 00:21:55,440
opportunity incredibly inspirational

580
00:21:58,390 --> 00:21:56,640
there's a couple key phrases that got

581
00:21:59,430 --> 00:21:58,400
mentioned to me there that i have never

582
00:22:00,710 --> 00:21:59,440
forgotten

583
00:22:02,549 --> 00:22:00,720
and things that inspired me there for

584
00:22:04,310 --> 00:22:02,559
sure

585
00:22:06,789 --> 00:22:04,320
that's awesome thanks

586
00:22:08,630 --> 00:22:06,799
from holly my daughter just graduated

587
00:22:10,390 --> 00:22:08,640
high school and last month visited nasa

588
00:22:12,390 --> 00:22:10,400
in florida she was inspired to major in

589
00:22:14,149 --> 00:22:12,400
engineering at college this fall what

590
00:22:15,909 --> 00:22:14,159
are some other things she can do to

591
00:22:21,350 --> 00:22:15,919
achieve her goal of working at nasa

592
00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:24,870
i've got the mic right now

593
00:22:30,149 --> 00:22:26,230
continue to

594
00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:30,159
you know astronaut was always an option

595
00:22:33,110 --> 00:22:31,360
in the back of my head or the front of

596
00:22:34,470 --> 00:22:33,120
my head as i went through life but just

597
00:22:37,830 --> 00:22:34,480
continue to do what you love and the

598
00:22:39,669 --> 00:22:37,840
pieces will fall in every time

599
00:22:42,789 --> 00:22:39,679
anybody else i i'd say learn to be a

600
00:22:44,789 --> 00:22:42,799
team player i'm just kidding um no also

601
00:22:47,590 --> 00:22:44,799
that but um so i

602
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,470
know

603
00:22:53,669 --> 00:22:52,149
i i actually started out as an

604
00:22:56,310 --> 00:22:53,679
engineering major

605
00:22:57,990 --> 00:22:56,320
in college and i found that that wasn't

606
00:23:00,870 --> 00:22:58,000
uh what i loved it wasn't what i was

607
00:23:02,789 --> 00:23:00,880
passionate about and so i actually

608
00:23:04,310 --> 00:23:02,799
went back to the kind of requirements

609
00:23:06,310 --> 00:23:04,320
for being an astronaut because i knew

610
00:23:08,710 --> 00:23:06,320
then that that was kind of the end goal

611
00:23:11,110 --> 00:23:08,720
and found that uh that you can major in

612
00:23:13,510 --> 00:23:11,120
any stem field so science technology

613
00:23:15,750 --> 00:23:13,520
mathematics um and so that's how i fell

614
00:23:18,149 --> 00:23:15,760
into uh geology and particularly

615
00:23:20,630 --> 00:23:18,159
planetary geology and that path has led

616
00:23:22,870 --> 00:23:20,640
me here so i would say that

617
00:23:24,789 --> 00:23:22,880
keep those those uh

618
00:23:27,110 --> 00:23:24,799
super high goals but but know that your

619
00:23:29,270 --> 00:23:27,120
path to get there may change

620
00:23:31,110 --> 00:23:29,280
well and on the on the subject of being

621
00:23:33,029 --> 00:23:31,120
a team player you've played on quite a

622
00:23:34,470 --> 00:23:33,039
few teams i think you think that had

623
00:23:36,870 --> 00:23:34,480
anything to do with

624
00:23:38,789 --> 00:23:36,880
you getting this far yes absolutely um

625
00:23:41,909 --> 00:23:38,799
yes so i've played sports most of my

626
00:23:43,830 --> 00:23:41,919
life um i in college in particular i

627
00:23:46,789 --> 00:23:43,840
played rugby on the stanford women's

628
00:23:48,950 --> 00:23:46,799
rugby team um and also played on the

629
00:23:51,110 --> 00:23:48,960
national team as well the national

630
00:23:53,510 --> 00:23:51,120
women's sevens rugby team um and

631
00:23:55,269 --> 00:23:53,520
definitely that experience has um helped

632
00:23:57,990 --> 00:23:55,279
me understand the importance of teamwork

633
00:23:59,750 --> 00:23:58,000
and discipline and working towards goals

634
00:24:01,669 --> 00:23:59,760
and and putting in that hard work and

635
00:24:03,430 --> 00:24:01,679
dedication so i certainly i think that

636
00:24:05,590 --> 00:24:03,440
has shaped who i am today and helped me

637
00:24:07,750 --> 00:24:05,600
get here

638
00:24:09,269 --> 00:24:07,760
all right

639
00:24:13,430 --> 00:24:09,279
any other questions

640
00:24:18,470 --> 00:24:16,549
so the selection process culminates with

641
00:24:20,230 --> 00:24:18,480
us having the opportunity to make the

642
00:24:21,830 --> 00:24:20,240
phone calls to offer you guys jobs

643
00:24:23,269 --> 00:24:21,840
except for bob's

644
00:24:24,710 --> 00:24:23,279
instance

645
00:24:26,789 --> 00:24:24,720
and uh

646
00:24:29,269 --> 00:24:26,799
and there's lots of emotion in those

647
00:24:30,230 --> 00:24:29,279
phone calls but by far the most emotion

648
00:24:31,029 --> 00:24:30,240
xena

649
00:24:33,510 --> 00:24:31,039
was

650
00:24:34,950 --> 00:24:33,520
your phone call can you tell us or share

651
00:24:36,710 --> 00:24:34,960
with the audience

652
00:24:39,269 --> 00:24:36,720
what was going through your mind where

653
00:24:41,510 --> 00:24:39,279
were you and what happened when you hung

654
00:24:44,070 --> 00:24:41,520
up the phone after you

655
00:24:45,669 --> 00:24:44,080
said yes to us sure um

656
00:24:48,549 --> 00:24:45,679
so we knew the day that we were going to

657
00:24:50,470 --> 00:24:48,559
get the phone call um and my fiance is

658
00:24:52,470 --> 00:24:50,480
actually out on a research vessel right

659
00:24:53,830 --> 00:24:52,480
now and so i asked a couple of very

660
00:24:55,830 --> 00:24:53,840
close friends to

661
00:24:58,310 --> 00:24:55,840
first keep the secret and second come

662
00:24:59,990 --> 00:24:58,320
keep me company come babysit me so they

663
00:25:02,310 --> 00:25:00,000
made me breakfast tacos and we were

664
00:25:04,789 --> 00:25:02,320
sitting around in my living room um and

665
00:25:06,470 --> 00:25:04,799
there's a series of photos of that

666
00:25:07,750 --> 00:25:06,480
morning where you can just watch my face

667
00:25:09,669 --> 00:25:07,760
going from

668
00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:09,679
you know anything could happen this is

669
00:25:13,190 --> 00:25:11,120
going to be a great day no matter what

670
00:25:14,870 --> 00:25:13,200
to just like

671
00:25:17,190 --> 00:25:14,880
oh no um

672
00:25:19,750 --> 00:25:17,200
i'm you know as i'm just losing

673
00:25:22,070 --> 00:25:19,760
energy losing hope um

674
00:25:24,710 --> 00:25:22,080
and then a photo of me getting the phone

675
00:25:27,110 --> 00:25:24,720
call and you know i had my hand over my

676
00:25:30,390 --> 00:25:27,120
heart because it was just

677
00:25:32,310 --> 00:25:30,400
absolute utter overwhelming emotion um

678
00:25:34,310 --> 00:25:32,320
you know i i haven't stopped smiling

679
00:25:36,390 --> 00:25:34,320
since but i really i don't think i've

680
00:25:37,830 --> 00:25:36,400
ever smiled that big in my life it was

681
00:25:40,390 --> 00:25:37,840
it was awesome and

682
00:25:42,789 --> 00:25:40,400
right after that i immediately called my

683
00:25:45,669 --> 00:25:42,799
fiance i woke him up in his bunk he was

684
00:25:47,110 --> 00:25:45,679
asleep he was on the night shift and

685
00:25:49,110 --> 00:25:47,120
according to my friends i didn't even

686
00:25:51,990 --> 00:25:49,120
tell him i got the job i'm just you know

687
00:25:53,909 --> 00:25:52,000
sort of laugh crying over the phone and

688
00:25:55,190 --> 00:25:53,919
i guess he figured it out but yeah

689
00:25:56,950 --> 00:25:55,200
getting getting to share that moment

690
00:25:58,390 --> 00:25:56,960
with those friends and

691
00:26:00,149 --> 00:25:58,400
everyone it was just

692
00:26:01,909 --> 00:26:00,159
awesome

693
00:26:04,310 --> 00:26:01,919
came through on the phone and we had our

694
00:26:07,669 --> 00:26:04,320
hands on our hearts too so that's really

695
00:26:10,470 --> 00:26:09,190
all right well chris since you got to

696
00:26:12,470 --> 00:26:10,480
spend a lot of time with these guys

697
00:26:14,870 --> 00:26:12,480
during the interview process and you

698
00:26:17,909 --> 00:26:14,880
were one of the many who worked to get

699
00:26:20,630 --> 00:26:17,919
the 18 000 plus applications down from

700
00:26:22,070 --> 00:26:20,640
down from 18 000 to 12. anything you'd

701
00:26:23,269 --> 00:26:22,080
say about this class and kind of what

702
00:26:24,630 --> 00:26:23,279
you see going forward for them in the

703
00:26:26,149 --> 00:26:24,640
future

704
00:26:27,750 --> 00:26:26,159
well i think their egos are blown up

705
00:26:29,510 --> 00:26:27,760
quite enough already so i don't need to

706
00:26:31,029 --> 00:26:29,520
let them know how great they are but no

707
00:26:34,470 --> 00:26:31,039
in all seriousness

708
00:26:36,630 --> 00:26:34,480
um getting down from 18 000 to some

709
00:26:38,070 --> 00:26:36,640
manageable number was a feat of it in

710
00:26:40,630 --> 00:26:38,080
and of itself and we physically

711
00:26:42,149 --> 00:26:40,640
interviewed 120 people here in houston

712
00:26:45,590 --> 00:26:42,159
obviously these 12

713
00:26:47,190 --> 00:26:45,600
were were part part of that and

714
00:26:49,830 --> 00:26:47,200
that's when it really gets hard i

715
00:26:51,669 --> 00:26:49,840
thought the 18 000 to 120 was difficult

716
00:26:53,909 --> 00:26:51,679
but that's all paper and there's no

717
00:26:56,230 --> 00:26:53,919
emotion we don't know the individuals as

718
00:26:57,990 --> 00:26:56,240
people yet and then we spend an hour

719
00:27:00,390 --> 00:26:58,000
with them in the conference room and

720
00:27:02,470 --> 00:27:00,400
socialize with them in the evening

721
00:27:04,470 --> 00:27:02,480
and get to know all the individuals

722
00:27:06,310 --> 00:27:04,480
personally and

723
00:27:09,029 --> 00:27:06,320
it was really hard to make some of the

724
00:27:09,909 --> 00:27:09,039
other phone calls to the folks that you

725
00:27:11,669 --> 00:27:09,919
guys

726
00:27:12,789 --> 00:27:11,679
met with and interviewed with and know

727
00:27:14,789 --> 00:27:12,799
that there's some really talented

728
00:27:17,190 --> 00:27:14,799
capable people out there

729
00:27:20,149 --> 00:27:17,200
but we're so happy to have these 12 and

730
00:27:21,990 --> 00:27:20,159
and it was just a real treat to invite

731
00:27:23,990 --> 00:27:22,000
and talk about those particular names

732
00:27:25,590 --> 00:27:24,000
and these particular faces and make the

733
00:27:27,190 --> 00:27:25,600
phone calls to bring them here we're

734
00:27:28,549 --> 00:27:27,200
just really excited to get started and

735
00:27:29,990 --> 00:27:28,559
get them going and integrate them into

736
00:27:31,110 --> 00:27:30,000
the office

737
00:27:33,269 --> 00:27:31,120
yes we're looking forward to getting

738
00:27:34,470 --> 00:27:33,279
them back here in august and i think we

739
00:27:35,190 --> 00:27:34,480
have one more question then we'll wrap

740
00:27:37,110 --> 00:27:35,200
up

741
00:27:39,430 --> 00:27:37,120
okay uh

742
00:27:41,430 --> 00:27:39,440
casey rogers 21st century again i just

743
00:27:43,750 --> 00:27:41,440
wanted to ask that remember earlier

744
00:27:45,510 --> 00:27:43,760
someone was saying that they had

745
00:27:47,350 --> 00:27:45,520
four children and a wife i couldn't

746
00:27:50,549 --> 00:27:47,360
remember who it was

747
00:27:53,190 --> 00:27:50,559
and i'm sure the rest of you all have

748
00:27:55,669 --> 00:27:53,200
husbands wives children

749
00:27:57,909 --> 00:27:55,679
and that's a big

750
00:28:00,389 --> 00:27:57,919
really big undertaking there how is

751
00:28:03,909 --> 00:28:00,399
how's your family taking it what is the

752
00:28:05,190 --> 00:28:03,919
support level from the family and then

753
00:28:07,029 --> 00:28:05,200
also

754
00:28:12,789 --> 00:28:07,039
how do you transition

755
00:28:17,510 --> 00:28:14,389
yeah so i think most of us would agree

756
00:28:18,549 --> 00:28:17,520
we all have amazing spouses or partners

757
00:28:20,710 --> 00:28:18,559
or

758
00:28:22,470 --> 00:28:20,720
family members i mean again just the

759
00:28:23,909 --> 00:28:22,480
amount of support you need

760
00:28:26,710 --> 00:28:23,919
to do some of the things we've been

761
00:28:29,750 --> 00:28:26,720
blessed to do is is immeasurable

762
00:28:31,830 --> 00:28:29,760
um and you know but it's also important

763
00:28:34,149 --> 00:28:31,840
you know you read these resumes and you

764
00:28:36,870 --> 00:28:34,159
look at our careers and you think that

765
00:28:38,389 --> 00:28:36,880
um all you ever do is work but i think

766
00:28:39,269 --> 00:28:38,399
it's really important to have balance in

767
00:28:41,190 --> 00:28:39,279
life

768
00:28:42,710 --> 00:28:41,200
and i personally have tried to do that

769
00:28:44,789 --> 00:28:42,720
at every step of the way you know they

770
00:28:46,070 --> 00:28:44,799
may not get a ton of time but the time

771
00:28:47,269 --> 00:28:46,080
time that they do get try to make

772
00:28:48,870 --> 00:28:47,279
equality

773
00:28:50,470 --> 00:28:48,880
and and sometimes you have to just put

774
00:28:52,630 --> 00:28:50,480
down the the work

775
00:28:53,990 --> 00:28:52,640
and focus on family and and if that

776
00:28:55,350 --> 00:28:54,000
means passing up a goal or an

777
00:28:56,950 --> 00:28:55,360
accomplishment then

778
00:28:59,110 --> 00:28:56,960
so be it uh fortunately i've been

779
00:29:00,149 --> 00:28:59,120
blessed enough that it's worked out okay

780
00:29:03,830 --> 00:29:00,159
so far

781
00:29:05,590 --> 00:29:03,840
um but i think that balance you know to

782
00:29:06,870 --> 00:29:05,600
is an advice that i try to give to all

783
00:29:09,909 --> 00:29:06,880
young people that i talk to because

784
00:29:13,430 --> 00:29:11,510
all right i think that's a great note to

785
00:29:14,630 --> 00:29:13,440
wrap up wrap up on so we're going to say

786
00:29:16,470 --> 00:29:14,640
goodbye but of course you're going to

787
00:29:18,870 --> 00:29:16,480
want to find out more about these guys

788
00:29:21,430 --> 00:29:18,880
you can go to nasa.gov

789
00:29:23,350 --> 00:29:21,440
2017 astronauts for their bios and