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people ask you when you're a kid hey

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what do you want to be when you

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grow up and i said i want to be an

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astronaut a biologist and a geologist

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so you know when you're five this seems

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studying microbiology on station is very

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similar to the earth except for your

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floating

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you may be doing the same experiment but

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you're conducting it on the ceiling

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because that's a convenient place to

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work

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we're studying things like sequencing

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dna what happens to the human body in

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space

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i get really excited about things and

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something about viruses about biology

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i'm totally fascinated by it and i want

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to get up and go work on this every day

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became the first person to sequence dna

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in space

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the addition of nasa astronaut kate

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rubins these three are about to be in

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the first

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planned two-orbit flight to the

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international space station with humans

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on board

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space is both a place that is like this

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far off almost fantastical thing that

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you think about people dream about

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but then on the other hand to me it's

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it's a home

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i've been there i've lived there for six

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months now i have friends there

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i'm looking forward to going back there

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like you would

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look forward to visiting an old

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apartment

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the moon is an incredible destination we

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have been there but we were there for

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such

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a brief period of time apollo

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it united the world and so to think

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you know when we're having dark times to

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think of the fact that we might

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have people on the planet able to look

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up

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and know that there's humans on the moon

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and that we've done this as a joint

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international

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collaboration i can't even describe what

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kinds of the benefits that might be

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both for our partnerships in the world

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and just for joy and inspiration in

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people's everyday lives

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less than 10 minutes away from today's

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launch this is kate rubin

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celebrating her birthday with a launch

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to the international space station

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i think if i was going to talk to my

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younger self i would say

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don't be so stressed out about what

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you're doing at the moment

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because it's such an honor to be a

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scientist and

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to be an astronaut just enjoy what

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you're doing every day

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