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Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door.
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Door
Hatch
Suited
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We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights.
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Inspection
Edge
Flights
Leading
Wing
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There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with.
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Brother
Involved
Missions
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Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
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Academy
Marine
Undergraduate
Bachelor
Degree
Merchant
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He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us.
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Appreciate
Harder
I Am People Doing
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A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.
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Personal Life
Life Space Your
Motivator
Obviously
Trip
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You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.
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Privilege
Ready
Work Time Look
Point
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The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights.
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Missions
Objectives
Orbit
Capabilities
Develop
Flights
Possibly
Test
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My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids.
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Deals
Incredibly
Specific
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There are a lot of dedicated people out there that don't get the recognition that we get, but they're as important as the people that are sitting in the vehicle.
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Dedicated
Recognition
Sitting
Vehicle
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There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well.
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Discussion
Nasa
Difficult Job
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I personally believe this Agency has always been very dedicated and has always worked as hard as it possibly can to do things as safely and as effectively as possible.
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Agency
Dedicated
Effectively
Personally
Safely
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Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like going camping with my kids. I have two daughters; they're 7 and 10 years old.
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Busy
Camping
Hobbies
Daughters
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It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space.
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Space
Garbage
House
Truck
Week
Twice
Somebody
Bring
Unlike
Space Station
Station
Twice A Week
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I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks.
Mark Kelly /
Helping
Prepared
Talking
Three
Hatch
Suited
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I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.
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Space
Apollo
Missions
Moon
Program
Space Program
Worthwhile
Interested
To The Moon
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Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.
Mark Kelly /
Accepted
Aircraft
Carrier
Flying
Graduate School
Naval
Pilots
Program
Spending
Applied
Graduate
Later
Test
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I think we've done that. But it's not something you really notice, 'cause I've always thought the people here have always done their best, and they continue to do their best. They just might do it a little bit differently.
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Best People Always
Notice
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After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.
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Airplane
Columbia
Flying
Loss
Risk
Space Shuttle
Vehicle
Years Ago
Couple Of Years Ago
Reminded
Shuttle
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Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
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Flying
Invention
Program
Risk
Space Program
Vehicle
Benefit
Throughout
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