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I come alive when I'm in orbit.

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It's like my being should be in space.

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Some people are born to be cowboys and ride a horse.

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I'm born to ride a rocket and be in space.

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And there is NASA astronaut Don Pettit flying in

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to the International Space Station

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Science of Opportunity happens on Earth.

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It happens anywhere there are scientists, engineers, uber geeks that are tasked with doing some programmatic work in a laboratory,

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and because you are there and you can, you get an idea.

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It's not on the script, it's not part of the program, but you get an idea.

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So the Science of Opportunity happens anywhere there are people thinking about

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advancing our knowledge and the same thing happens on space station.

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Wow.

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That is a good one.

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And then that, that rogue drop just came in from someplace and then it went someplace.

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Whoa!

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Look at that.

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I have been working with ice.

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I'm, freezing and thawing these crystals and looking at the front between the different crystals.

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The kind of research we do on space station is research where gravity has a major factor in the equation.

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Looking at Earth's

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horizon and our atmosphere on edge is truly a unique sight.

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You can also point your camera more zenith and you can look at Milky Way structures.

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Images from space help tell the story to people on Earth that don't have the opportunity to go into space.

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So the photographs help complete the story of what it means

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for human beings to expand into space and expand into this frontier.