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i think if anything i probably am a

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little bit of an impractical dreamer

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you know be really unrealistic about

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your dreams just be really realistic

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about your path

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when i was a little girl growing up in

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spokane washington becoming an astronaut

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like nobody did that there was no

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there's nobody that i could look to and

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say that person walked the path and i'm

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about to go walk

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the first step i took out of spokane was

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to go to west point that was a huge leap

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out of my comfort zone

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as i was flying across the country for

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the first time ever going to new york

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city

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i remember thinking like if i had the

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opportunity to get off this plane and

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not do this i probably would have taken

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it

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but you pushed through that

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i remember sitting on the airplane and

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flying down to nasa for an astronaut

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interview

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and i had that exact same feeling as

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when i was flying to west point as an 18

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year old kid

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and it was like maybe this is where i've

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reached too far maybe this is where i've

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pushed too far this is where it all ends

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what little girls from spokane

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washington grew up to be an astronaut

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i'm just not even going to try

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and so when i say i'm an impractical

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dreamer i mean i never listen to that

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part of me that says hey you're probably

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not going to succeed at this i always

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listen to the part that said well

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somebody's going to

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maybe it's going to be you we have

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liftoff of ann mclean blasting through

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the kazakh sky to the international

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space station

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you know i've always been so focused on

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my goals and i've always just sprinted

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toward those goals

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and when i look back at all the

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achievements

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remember it's the people that i did them

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with

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the person that wins the rugby match is

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the one that despite all of those hits

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despite all of the contact

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actually thinks 10 steps ahead thinks

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five steps ahead as a team

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and it's a strategy game now working

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here as an astronaut

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one of the toughest things that we do

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are space walks you have got to stay so

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mentally tuned in

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you have to know that you can push your

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body further than you think you can

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and i'm holding on to a handrail on the

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international space station

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and i'm looking out at the vast space

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and i looked back and i

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felt like this was my planet i was

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attached to it through gravity

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and i felt a closeness to the earth and

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i also realized

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how much more we have to explore we

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haven't even started yet

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our destiny is always to go and see

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what's further and what's next

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