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my name is natasha cloud i play for the

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washington mystics and i play in the

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wnba so i play basketball

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i'm naji castro and i work at nasa

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goddard space flight center in greenbelt

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maryland and i'm currently working on

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the osiris-rex project and the maven

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mission

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t-minus

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one minute and counting

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no issues with the range everything

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continues to be go 25

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status check

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goals go centaur go cyrus reps everyone

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is go we knew where we wanted to be at

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the end of the season we got to that

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point and now it's just about finishing

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and believing in each other seven six

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five

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four

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three

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two

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one

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and liftoff of osiris-rex

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we go into every season thinking that

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we're going to win the championship and

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just because we won doesn't mean that

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we're going to be handed a championship

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once we go into this season everything's

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erased and we're starting new

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we almost have to reset during every

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phase because everything's been kind of

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a different mini mission just approach

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was you know a mission of itself trying

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to learn how to navigate around bennu

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what kind of gravity environment was at

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bennu would we be in a very stable orbit

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but it's always really rewarding like

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even when you saw the first you know

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approach picture to bennu it's like oh

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my gosh that's our target

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it takes a lot of practice a lot of

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hours in the gym a lot of perfecting

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your craft

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so it's a constant learning process to

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be an engineer being open and knowing

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that there is a lot of education that

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you can continue to do i feel like i

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learned something new every day

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so you go into it you have nerves you

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have anxieties obviously it's kind of do

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or die time but you just prepare as if

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it was any other game

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despite all the challenges that are

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ongoing we really can lead successful

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operations

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especially for young women there's going

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to be a lot of people that tell them

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they can't do it there's going to be a

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lot of roadblocks in the way if you will

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and for me as a as a female athlete it's

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important for them to see a role model

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i hope i can serve as a reminder to

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girls that they should be emboldened to

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pursue engineering as i have

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you