English subtitles for clip: File:Meet Shannon Walker, Crew-1 Mission Specialist.webm

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I always wanted to be an astronaut.

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I just turned four
when we first landed on the Moon

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and I have a very distinct
memory of my parents

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taking me and my older sister
out into the backyard

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and the Moon was rising over our house

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and they pointed up there and said,
'We have people there,'

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and even at four, I thought
that just sounded like the best idea ever.

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(Video) We have been given
the scientific knowledge,

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the technical ability and the materials 
to pursue the exploration of the universe.

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To ignore these great resources would 
be a corruption of a god-given ability.

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SW: I had seen a new class of astronauts
that had been hired for the space shuttle

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and I was reading in the newspaper
what their qualifications were

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and just going through
some of them I realized

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I can do that and that was
a big turning point.

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[Shannon Walker Crew-1 Mission Specialist]

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I'm Dr. Shannon Walker,
NASA astronaut,

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and I am getting ready to fly
on the Crew-1 mission

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to the International Space Station.

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Crew-1 is the first operational 
mission of the Crew Dragon vehicle

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to the International Space Station.

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I was not expecting the call
to be assigned and so

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anytime you get a flight assignment 
it's tremendously exciting.

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I spent six months on the station
previously in 2010

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and I am so looking forward
to getting back there

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and having another six months
on the space station!

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There are so many things
that you could do on station.

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What I like about it
is every day really is different.

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You get up and you may be doing
a biological experiment one day,

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you may be doing maintenance
on equipment the next day,

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and then the day following
that you'll be doing

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some sort of experiment in chemistry.

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What I have found being part of
the International Space Station program,

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and not just Russia but our colleagues
in Japan, in Europe, in Canada,

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is that underneath it all

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we all have the same goals
and we all have the same passions.

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The Dragon spacecraft represents to me
as just a continuing evolution

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of better computing power that's,
you know, evolved over the years

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and different ways that the crew
can interact with the spacecraft.

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SpaceX is a very interesting company.

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There are so many young people,

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I always imagine it to be like it was
in the early Apollo days at NASA

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with so many young engineers
so passionate about what they are doing.

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The important thing is we both
have learned from each other

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and now we've got a very strong bond

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on what we want to accomplish
and how we need to accomplish it together.

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I do believe that human space flight
is an imperative for our planet

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and to be a part of that,
to keep the progress growing,

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I find very inspiring.

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