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I do wonder what it's going to be like

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when we are really far from Earth
and can see it.

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The sensation of being so far away
from everything that you know.

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I had that sensation on, 
on the Space Station

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the first time I got to sit in the cupola
for a really long time.

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So I can only imagine what that's going
to be like from 200,000 plus miles away.

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My name is Victor Glover,

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and I'm the Pilot for NASA's Artemis II 
mission around the Moon.

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When I was in fourth grade,
I was ten years old

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and that's when the Challenger
accident happened.

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And it helped me understand
how the general public felt

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about the astronaut corps.

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Right? Like these are the 
people that we want to be.

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And that just gave me an easy thing
to strive toward.

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The biggest fear
that I've had to overcome

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in my life is 
doubting myself.

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Going to college when no one in my family
had gone to college was a huge risk.

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I had more confidence in my athletic
ability than in my academic abilities.

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I could play football with those college
students that I saw on TV,

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but my classmates that I saw in the lab
and around the university union,

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I didn't know if I had what they had.

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I think addressing that self-doubt

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was a part of,
you know, swinging for the fence

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and trying
to go get an engineering degree,

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not just go to college,
but get an engineering degree and then go

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do something challenging and technical,
like flying.

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Apollo is known for 
sending humans to the Moon.

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Artemis has an opportunity
to continue the Apollo story,

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but I actually think it's important
for this story to stand on its own.

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Artemis is a new program,
and we're trying to do new things,

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and it's great to compare and contrast.

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When you look at our spaceship,

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you can see parts that were designed,
built and integrated in another country.

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When you look at our crew,
you see that our crew is international.

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There are also men and women,
and I just think that that comparing

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and contrasting
makes the story even richer.

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The piloting role specifically,
I will have an hour and a half

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or so where I get to fly
the spacecraft by hand.

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We haven't flown that many spaceships,
and so the ability to fly one actually

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in space on a test mission
is just a really unique opportunity.

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I can't tell you how I'm going to feel
when we fly by the Moon

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and see the Moon up close in the Earth
from a quarter of a million miles away.

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But I don't use the word excited
because I'm focused.

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You know what we do,

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this is very serious, and it's very risky.

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And we are all intimately familiar
with that risk.

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And so if we go out there
and we're successful

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and we can pass that baton on 
to Artemis III,

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that's something
to really be excited about.