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Activists Around the World: Colonel Nicole Aunapu Mann · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to Stephe
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  Speaker 1: never told your production if I hurried you, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to me, apparently having a locked of lower voice, like
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of shocked myself of getting real sexy
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  Speaker 1: all slash kind of sick. So apologies for the sound content, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: not apologizing for the scattered nous of my mind because
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  Speaker 1: that's constant and that's like a personality trait, Right, Annie,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I guess you're so nice.
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  Speaker 1: But back to what we were saying, welcome to another
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  Speaker 1: installment of activists around the world, women around the world.
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  Speaker 1: What are women doing around the world? All kinds of things,
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  Speaker 1: And today we wanted to change it up a bit.
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  Speaker 1: We are still celebrating Native American Heritage Month as it
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  Speaker 1: is coming to an end, even though we will never
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  Speaker 1: stop talking about the amazing indigenous advocates around the world.
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  Speaker 1: So but yes, in the United States, it is in
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  Speaker 1: the month of November. We're coming close to the end
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  Speaker 1: of November. Oh my god, it's about to be December. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know. Anyway, um, and we are talking
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  Speaker 1: about the amazing career of NASA astronaut Colonel Nicole on
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  Speaker 1: a pu man and I'm really kind of excited. Annie.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever had any dreams of going to space
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  Speaker 1: or being an astronaut? Yes? Yes. In fact, I could
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  Speaker 1: send you a screenshot of my to do list on
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  Speaker 1: it is go to space. Um, my to do list
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  Speaker 1: is very ambitious, I do. I I was very afraid
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  Speaker 1: of space for a while because, as I have said,
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  Speaker 1: I had a a prank, a very effective prank played
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  Speaker 1: on me as a child that made me terrified of
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  Speaker 1: aliens in space in general, like, very very scared. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't until I didn't get over until college. Um, so
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  Speaker 1: you know I didn't want to then, even though I
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  Speaker 1: did really love space gamp, which I went to in
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  Speaker 1: sixth grade. But now I think it was after college
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'd really like to
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  Speaker 1: go to space. However, I do not want to be
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  Speaker 1: in the kind of rich billionaire class of space going.
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  Speaker 1: That's not like brand I want. I would you pay
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  Speaker 1: if you had the money, because I know, like you
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  Speaker 1: can pay a certain amount. What was it like several
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  Speaker 1: million dollars to go to space? It's one of those things.
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  Speaker 1: Can't I just go to space? Yeah? Yeah, he did.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of upsetting about was not the point
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  Speaker 1: of it. And also how Jeff Bezos kind of treated
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing was not great, but that's not surprising.
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  Speaker 1: So it's also like we talked about this with at Arctica.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those things where I'm like, I want
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  Speaker 1: to do it, but I also don't want to. I
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  Speaker 1: want to do it responsibly, and I'm not sure there's
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  Speaker 1: a way to do that for the environment. So the yeah,
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  Speaker 1: basically I want to, I probably never will. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: if they decide that we need to move to Mars,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to go. I thought about this a lot too.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm talriing about that. I would love
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  Speaker 1: to go. I'm also terrified because I think that's like
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  Speaker 1: it would be very difficult and you have to start
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things that I don't think people realize
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  Speaker 1: from scratch, And there is a part of me that's
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  Speaker 1: like I really don't want to. I feel like again
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  Speaker 1: going back to that rich billionaire thing of like we
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  Speaker 1: can almost save this planet, will go to this planet,
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't like that whole mindset, but I might go.
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  Speaker 1: I would go. Okay, Okay, I have so many more
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  Speaker 1: space related questions, but I'm going to stop because it's
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  Speaker 1: a fascinating topic. I have never necessarily wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: an astronaut. I think I knew as a child that
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  Speaker 1: I was an underachiever and that all that science and
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  Speaker 1: math was not going to be my life. So no,
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  Speaker 1: but it is fascinating to me. I we talked about
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  Speaker 1: how we love planetariums and talking about the best space
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, did you ever go to the space
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  Speaker 1: museum or space camp? Yeah? Did you? Did you talk
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  Speaker 1: about this? I just said it. Oh my god, I'm sick.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. No, it's okay. I did, but you you
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  Speaker 1: didn't go? I did not, man, I absolutely blanked out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I missed out from that. We went to planetariums
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  Speaker 1: just never. Yeah, those were great too. I love those.
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  Speaker 1: And I went home for this past holiday weekend. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I've ever said this before. I
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  Speaker 1: think I have, but I have ever, I believe ever
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  Speaker 1: a thousand. I think more of those gold in the
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  Speaker 1: dark stars in my room on the ceiling, and I
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  Speaker 1: would just like stare at them, like this is so beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: Like looking at stars is one of my very favorite things. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you have a little light setting for it right, I do.
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  Speaker 1: I have two projectors to galaxy projectors now, adore it,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm already planning like my chill New Year's where
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  Speaker 1: I read fan fiction and half at all a month ahead.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. But you know, I think it's not
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  Speaker 1: uncommon when you were talking about sitting and looking and
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  Speaker 1: making your own space look like space, because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the astronauts her interview talked about this, including Colonel Man,
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  Speaker 1: who talked about this as a child wanting to go
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  Speaker 1: to space, but before we get there. Colonel Man is
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  Speaker 1: a member of the Round Valley Indian tribe, and she's
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  Speaker 1: become the first Native American woman in space as of
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  Speaker 1: October of this year. Um Colonel Mann grew up in California,
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  Speaker 1: graduating from Rancho Co Tait High School, moving on to
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  Speaker 1: attend the U. S. Naval Academy, graduating with a Bachelor
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  Speaker 1: of Science degree in mechanical engineering, and she went on
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  Speaker 1: to get her master's degree from Stanford University in a
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  Speaker 1: mechanical engineering um and a couple of fun facts, she
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  Speaker 1: was a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps as well
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  Speaker 1: as she played a soccer for the Naval Midshipment as
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  Speaker 1: a defender and speaking of her military career, in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand one, she attended flight training at the Naval Air
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  Speaker 1: Station in Pensacola, Florida. In two thousand three, she earned
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  Speaker 1: her Wings of Gold as a naval aviator and in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand four she started her aviation career with the
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  Speaker 1: Thunderbolts of v m F A TOFT one in South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: and after two deployments, Colonel Mann went on to become
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  Speaker 1: a project officer, working in flight test, carrier stabilities and more.
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  Speaker 1: And in two thousand twelve she was selected as an
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  Speaker 1: astronaut candidate, accumulating over two thousand, five hundred flight hours
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five types of aircraft, two hundred carrier arrestments,
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  Speaker 1: and forty seven combat missions. And that's according to her
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  Speaker 1: NASA biography. And it was in that she was selected
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  Speaker 1: as a member of the twenty one NASA Astronaut Class.
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  Speaker 1: She completed her rigorous training in Since then she has
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  Speaker 1: helped um on development for the Rion spacecraft, space launch
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  Speaker 1: system and the exploration ground systems as the T thirty
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  Speaker 1: Safety and Training Officer and as the Assistant to the
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  Speaker 1: Chief Astronaut and Exploration And it was in October fifth, two,
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  Speaker 1: which was a reschedule. By the way, Colonel Man launched
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  Speaker 1: as the commander of NASA's space X Crew F to
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  Speaker 1: the International Space Station on the space X Crew Dragon spacecraft,
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  Speaker 1: making her the first Native woman to be in space.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, the first state of person a
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  Speaker 1: man was sent twenty years prior um so at this
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  Speaker 1: time the crew is supposed to remain on the station
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  Speaker 1: for six months um And just recently, space X launch
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  Speaker 1: supplies to the International Space Station, including a Thanksgiving mill
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  Speaker 1: that had spicy green beans and some desserts including candy corn,
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  Speaker 1: items like solar arrays, a dwarf tomato seeds, and other
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  Speaker 1: types of science experiments. The space X program has apparently
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  Speaker 1: been sending supplies of fresh vegetables which they can't get
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  Speaker 1: because of the types of mills on the space station
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  Speaker 1: include the lettuce and chilies and now red robin tomatoes.
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  Speaker 1: They said it should come out, it should be able
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  Speaker 1: to be harvested in spring, So I'm gonna be there
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  Speaker 1: for quite a while. Yes, And if you're interested in
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  Speaker 1: the science of food and space, you can check out
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  Speaker 1: the other podcast I'm on Saver because we talked about
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  Speaker 1: that all the time. We love that stuff fascinating. In
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  Speaker 1: a recent MPR interview, Colonel Man spoke about inspiring youth
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  Speaker 1: to break down barriers, saying, these young women, maybe natives,
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  Speaker 1: maybe people from different backgrounds that realize that they have
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  Speaker 1: these opportunities and that potentially these barriers that used to
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  Speaker 1: be there are starting to be broken down, and so
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  Speaker 1: hopefully that will inspire that younger generation, and then went
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  Speaker 1: on to say, never discount yourself. If you don't go
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  Speaker 1: after a dream or a goal, and if you don't try,
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  Speaker 1: you're never going to make it. You know, pursue the
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  Speaker 1: topic in school, ask for help, meet people that have
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  Speaker 1: done that job to learn more about it. You'll grow
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  Speaker 1: so much more as a child into an adult, and
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  Speaker 1: your interest will vary quite a bit. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: exciting to take this opportunity to chase down all of
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  Speaker 1: those dreams and never scount yourself. Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 1: And uh. Though she is quite busy right now in space,
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  Speaker 1: she's also training for the Artemis program, which is a
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  Speaker 1: robotic and human moon exploration program, and is currently working
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  Speaker 1: to be the first woman on the Moon, which is
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for so we'll have to come back and talk
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  Speaker 1: about that, And of course with all of that, she
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  Speaker 1: has many more accolades, including the seventeen Jerry Yeagly Award
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  Speaker 1: for Excessional Personal Achievement and was inducted into the Academic
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  Speaker 1: All American Hall of Fame, and of course some several
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  Speaker 1: several medals for her time in the military. UM and
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  Speaker 1: just a fun fact if you wanted to know, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you anyways, she was able to
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  Speaker 1: take some personal items with her on this travel, including
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  Speaker 1: a dream catcher that her mother had given her a
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  Speaker 1: while back and some other personal trinkets. So I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was really sweet. Yeah, that's awesome, very very cool,
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  Speaker 1: very very inspiring and can't wait to check back in.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait to check back in on this one. UM.
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