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Young people can accomplish a lot.
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Accomplish
People Young Young People
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I kind of watch anything on the Syfy channel.
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Channel
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When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.
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Academia
Grad
Grad School
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I think young folks have a good sense of what they want to do.
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Good Sense
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You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.
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Career Path
Nerves
Steel
Rocket
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I think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut.
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Astronaut
Credibility
Reasonable
Your Own Think
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Folks should find what really inspires them; they should always pursue what they want to do.
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Pursue
Inspires
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Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.
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Joining
Nasa
Life Decision My Life
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Spaceflight is a tricky business. It is definitely difficult, and I think we forget that sometime.
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Tricky
Sometime
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I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.
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Exploring
Fascinated
Our World
Solar System
Science Always World
Solar
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From as young as I can remember, I wanted to be - in order - an astronaut, a geologist, and a biologist.
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Astronaut
Biologist
Geologist
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NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.
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Nasa
Assess
Emergency
Everyone Else
Trains
React
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My lab used to do gene expression and genomics, and we did a lot of sequencing samples from virus outbreaks.
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Sequencing
Gene
Lab
Samples
Virus
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When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.
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Biology
Stanford
Infectious
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I was the one with a subscription to 'Sky and Telescope' magazine as a kid while my friends were reading 'Tiger Beat.'
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Sky
Subscription
Magazine
Telescope
Tiger
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I don't think you ever really decide that you want to be an astronaut. I put in an application and hoped for the best.
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Application
Astronaut
Hoped
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I thought that NASA didn't take biologists and so nothing would come of it. But I knew I would regret it if I did not apply.
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Nasa
Regret
Biologists
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I'm involved with health care/medical supply delivery to Africa and started a non-profit organization to bring supplies to Congo.
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Congo
Delivery
Supplies
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There's a world of insights to be gained into human health and disease by understanding how gravity and space radiation influence biology.
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Biology
Gravity
Human Health
Radiation
Gained
Insights
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We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote regions on Earth.
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Devices
Engineer
Remote
Same Things
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We're pretty interested in microbial communities on-board space stations. It's a closed-loop system. Our water is recycled; our air is recycled.
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Recycled
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There's actually an incredible amount of parallels between working in central Congo in a remote, isolated village and doing research aboard the space station.
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Congo
Isolated
Parallels
Village
Remote
Space Station
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I decided to do graduate studies in virology at Stanford University in California because it had a hospital, which made working on clinical applications easier.
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Stanford
Applications
Clinical
Graduate
Hospital
Studies
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I think it's going to be amazing to see how the world of microbiology, molecular and cellular biology, and human physiology is massively changed by microgravity.
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Biology
Cellular
Physiology
Massively
Molecular
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As an undergraduate majoring in biology at the University of California, San Diego, I worked on infectious diseases at the nearby Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
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California
Institute
San Diego
Undergraduate
University
Biological
Diego
Diseases
Infectious
Nearby
San
Studies
University Of California
Worked
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If you find something that you're excited about and you're interested in, my advice to young women and young men would be do what you're really interested in and what drives and motivates you.
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Drives
Motivates
Young Men
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They say that in space, nobody can hear you scream. The first time I stepped out of the airlock, I was ready to scream - not because I was scared but because I was so excited to see the Earth below me.
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First Time
Ready
Scared
Scream
Time Space Me
Below
Space Time Me
Stepped
They Say
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Sequencing DNA on the ISS will enable NASA to see what happens to genetic material in space in real time, rather than looking at a snapshot of DNA before launch and another snapshot of DNA after launch and filling in the blanks.
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Space
Dna
Filling
Nasa
Sequencing
Time Will See
Blanks
Time Space Happens
Enable
Genetic
Launch
Material
Real Time
Snapshot
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When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.
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Acid
Biology
Bits
Captivated
Dna
San Francisco
Conference
Discussions
Francisco
Museum
San
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You absolutely know you're in space when you're doing a spacewalk. That was pretty interesting because you can feel vacuum. It actually changes your vocal cords because the pressure inside the suit drops quite a bit, so your voice feels different.
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Cords
Vocal
Vocal Cords
Drops
Quite A Bit
Suit
Vacuum
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For long-duration exploration missions, NASA is looking for folks with a lot of operational, hands-on experience, people who have been in field-type situations such as military deployments. In my case, I worked in the Congo and in Biosafety Level 4 labs on smallpox.
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Experience
Congo
Deployment
Exploration
Folks
Labs
Military
Missions
Nasa
Smallpox
Lot
Been
Case
Hands-On
Operational
Worked
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When I started working at NASA and understanding what the capabilities really were of the space station and the space program, one of the biggest draws for me was the ability to do experiments in space. We can do a number of experiments where gravity is actually a variable.
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Draws
Experiments
Gravity
Nasa
Space Program
Capabilities
Variable
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I thought I was prepared for space, and it still absolutely defied every expectation and dream. It is an incredible thing to put yourself on a rocket and launch off the planet. It is an amazing thing to see the planet from space. This blue sphere is almost indescribably beautiful.
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Dream
Amazing
Space
Blue
Prepared
Absolutely
Almost
Amazing Thing
Defied
Dream It
Expectation
Launch
Planet
Rocket
Sphere
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When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, 'Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.'
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Crystals
Ice
Hose
Suit
Vacuum
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When we're doing the space walks, we're working very very hard. Every single minute is choreographed. But there's a few minutes here and there where ground is maybe talking about something, and you have to put your tools down and wait. Just getting a chance to look through your visor and see the planet go by was incredible.
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Tools
Walks
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It changes your perspective to be able to look out the window and see the planet. One of the thoughts that I had when I first got up here was, 'We really do live on a planet, and we are in a solar system, and we are flying through space right now.' I mean, this is something that you know, obviously, but to see the planet - it's amazing.
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Amazing
Space
Flying
Perspective
Solar System
Window
Obviously
Planet
Solar
System
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