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station this is houston are you ready

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yes i'm ready for the event

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nowthis.com this is mission control

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houston please call station 4 voice

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if you are

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okay great thanks peggy here we go so

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not only are you a woman in stem which

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alone is you know makes you

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a trailblazer statistically but you've

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held titles like commander and chief in

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a time when so few other women were

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doing it so why did you do it and where

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i'm not so sure if it was so much

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courage as just being in the right place

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at the right time i

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uh feel like

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i'm lucky to work at nasa i don't think

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largely uh your gender is a big issue

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and i think if you do your job well and

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you're in a position to be able to take

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the next step i think we are afforded

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those kind of opportunities and

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those next steps uh they've been

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challenging for sure

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and i think you have to be comfortable

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stepping beyond what's comfortable for

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you i mean you have to step outside of

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your comfort zone

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in order to really excel and i think

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awesome

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what type of obstacles or insecurities

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have you dealt with being a woman in a

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male-dominated field and how do you

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i think for me

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just working extra hard

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i think i was very lucky in that there

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weren't a lot of obstacles put in my way

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it it just paid off for me

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and so i think that determination that

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that will is very important as much as

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what was your very first job

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it's funny you should ask that i always

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say i've never had a real job because

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i've always worked at nasa

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after i got my phd i

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did a postdoctoral fellowship at nasa

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and from there uh started working for

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one of the contractors

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in the biochemistry area and then later

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joined nasa

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uh directly but it was still 10 years

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from the time i got my phd until i was

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lucky enough to be selected as an

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astronaut

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i think it's most important in your life

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to pursue those things that you really

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really enjoy

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because the journey is part of the path

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it's an important step in getting

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and why do women make great astronauts

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i think it's because we're more flexible

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actually you know i think

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we talk a lot about expeditionary skills

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we want people to be adaptable to the

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situation adaptable to the personalities

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they're working with

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and i think that adaptation is important

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because you're working in such an

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unusually different environment you know

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being up here where there is no gravity

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changes your perspective on a lot of

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being able to adapt to lots of different

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environments is also important

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so adaptability is probably the best

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awesome and what do you miss most about

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planet earth and what are you looking

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i miss a variety of food and of course

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my husband and my family it's it's uh

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it's neat to be around friends and i can

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still call them and talk to them on the

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phone or

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we do occasional facetime type

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video conferences with family

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and and that's all great but uh of

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course i'd love to be back there with

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them uh in general i also um my hobbies

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plants and i really love plants but i

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was lucky enough on this mission i've

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grown a couple of different types of

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cabbage

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and we actually got to eat some of that

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so that was a plus for two reasons not

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only just growing them but actually

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awesome well thanks so much for being an

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inspiration to women and girls

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i'm very honored thank you very much

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station this is houston acr that

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station please stand by while we