Ep 135: Eyes on the Horizon: How One Canyons Alum is Achieving His Dreams at NASA

The Class of 2026 have turned their tassels, leaving behind their childhood years and setting their sights on the horizon. Some will head to college, others look to build their own business, and still more will begin to pursue their dreams of the future. 

In this episode of Connect Canyons, we sit down with someone who walked a similar path and now has his sights set on the horizon, quite literally. TJ Newman is a Canyons alum who dreamed of being an engineer and eventually of a career supporting space exploration. Now, he supports the science experiments taking place onboard the International Space Station, turning his classroom skills into mission-ready work. He shares how teachers here at CSD helped open doors for him, how the arts helped him get where he is today, and his advice for anyone with dreams. We hear a little bit about his love for sci-fi movies and geek out on science experiments too. 

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Welcome To Connect Canyons

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Welcome to Connect Canyons, a podcast sponsored by Canyon School District. This is a show about what we teach, how we teach, and why we get up close and personal with some of the people who make our schools great. Students, teachers, principals, parents, and more. We meet national experts too. Learning is about making connections. So connect with us.

Meet A NASA ISS Flight Controller

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Space. The final frontier. To boldly go when no one has gone before. These are the logs of the star-shaped Connect Canyons. I'm your captain, Francis Cup. As graduation approaches, the class of 2026 are setting their sights on the horizon. Some major new space, others look to build their own successful business, and so many other worring dreams of the future. I'm joined today by someone who has walked a similar path. TJ Raymond is a Canyons alum who now works among some of the greatest engineers, scientists, and astronauts in the world at NASA in operations control, supporting the International Space Station. TJ, thank you for taking the time to join us. Of course, I'm happy to be here.

Growing Up In Canyons Schools

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So you what we like to call home cooking. You're born and raised right here in the Canyons community. Would you tell us about your time at school? Definitely. Yep, I I remember my time here very fondly. I think about it a lot. I was born in Draper. I went to kindergarten at Oak Hollow. And then I moved over to Willow Springs Elementary. From there, I went to seventh grade at Crescent View Middle School and then attended the newly built Draper Park Middle School before I went over to Corner Canyon High School. So lots of different schools throughout my time here, but all of them in Canyon School District. From there I went on to attend BYU, where I just graduated and then started full-time at NASA after.

The Moment NASA Became Real

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Tell me, when did you know that NASA was where you wanted to build your career? I remember growing up, I loved tinkering. I loved math. I loved science. I loved building things. And then in middle school, we take all the career placement tests, and every single one that I got said, you should be an engineer, you should be an engineer. And I said, No, they're weird. I don't want to be in a physical museum. And so I fought it and I said, No, I want to do something else. I want to do something else. But then the more I thought about it, and actually I take a physics class in ninth grade at Corner Canyon, and we went on a field trip to a mining engineering company. I forget what the company was, but we went on a field trip and I looked around and I saw the machines and I saw the labs they were working on. I saw the work they were building. I said, actually, okay, this is pretty cool. I love the idea of building things and I love math, but not that much. And I love science, but not that much. And so I'll take the math and the science and I'll use it as a tool to become an engineer, and then I can build things and change the world. So in ninth grade, I decided I wanted to be an engineer. And then the next year, when I was a sophomore, my family took a vacation to Florida where we visited the Kennedy Space Center. And I remember going through the different exhibits, and one exhibit in particular, they showed a video of the space shuttle program and the space shuttle Atlantis. And at the very end, they had a picture of the space shuttle Atlantis and it was floating there in the air. And then they lifted the screen up, and behind the screen was the real space shuttle Atlantis sitting in the exact same position on the video. And I remember I talked to my mom, my whole family about that moment, and it really hit all of us like this is real, this is cool. And so wandering around the rest of the exhibits, I looked to my mom and I said, Mom, I want to come back here one day. And she said, Oh, that'd be fine. I said, No, mom, like I want to come back here. I want to work here one day. And so that day, it was July of whatever year I was a sophomore. You won't date you. Yeah. I remember that day was when I decided. I don't I didn't really know what NASA did. I didn't know what all the different programs were, what you could work on, but I knew that's where I wanted to be. And so then as I continued in school and I went to BYU, I got more experience with rocketry and propulsion. That's kind of what I gravitated towards. I did some internships with NASA in that world of rocket design and propulsion. And then I ended up taking a job as an operations controller for the space station. And so it's actually not an engineering job. I don't do much engineering day-to-day, but the skills that I learned as an engineer, the critical thinking, the communication, those types of skills are very beneficial. And then having the background of engineering, understanding science that we do on the space station is all really helpful as well. So we knew more than you asked for, but that's how I knew I wanted to be there. I think you make a great point about how you know the skill sets that you learn, be it in elementary school, where you're learning to collaborate as a team to engineering and science, it helps to know what your counterparts are doing, right? You can understand why this might take longer than you would imagine it would if you didn't know the minutiae oven. Definitely. I love your title. It sounds so exciting to me. You're an operations controller supporting the ISS. It sounds exciting. What does that mean?

What Payload Ops Controllers Do

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Yeah, so we have we have a whole team of flight controllers. You've probably seen the movies where they're like, Houston, we have a problem and have the fancy headsets and the computers and the big screens, not a vest, just polars and ties sometimes. Yeah, yeah, okay. No, one day. So we have this whole team of flight controllers, and there are different flight control centers all around the world. We have one in Houston. Houston's the one that runs the space station, kind of keeps the lights on, so to speak. We have others in Europe, in Russia, in Japan, and in Canada, as well as random different places that work on science projects for us. And so this whole team of flight controls all around the wood. And all things come back through Houston, right? Houston is like the hub. Yes. Yeah. Houston is is the hub. They're the ones that they have the Ashnot Training Office, and so they are responsible for a lot of the space station itself. And then in Huntsville, Alabama, we have the Paler Operations and Integration Center. And so what when we talk about payloads, meaning we mean any sort of science experiment that flies to space. And so we're responsible for the thoroughfare of all the science experiments that end up going to space. We had one just last year that went to space around the Hellcrest High. All right. Awesome. Shout out to Husky. I love it. And so we we see all the size experiments that come through, and we have teams that help to write the procedures that the astronauts will work on. We have teams at work to do all their scheduling, they build the schedule down to every five minutes. Then we have other teams that review different safety procedures to make sure we're taking all the precautions that we need to. And then I have a real-time team of flight controllers in the front room with different positions who all are responsible for different things. So all that context as an operation controller, I sit in that front room with the headset and on the screen you see the astronauts, we listen to each other, we listen to all around the world, and we listen to the astronauts themselves. And so as they execute their science experiments every day, I'm responsible for controlling those operations, so to speak. I'm an expert on the science experiments. I know what they're doing, I know why they're doing it, and then I also talk to the people who own the science experiments, whether a university or a company or another NASA program that's owning the science experiment. I'm also responsible for the real-time safety, so I know all the safety steps that need to be taken. I can answer any of those questions and make sure we're doing it safely. I'm responsible for what we call timeline execution. So when things don't go according to plan, when it takes longer or shorter than expected, we need to shuffle things around. I'm responsible for kind of coordinating that throughout the day. And then another big thing I'm responsible for is anomaly resolution. When something goes wrong, when something breaks, when something doesn't work, the science experiment doesn't go according to plan, which happens all the time since we can't test things in microgravity here on the ground. I'm responsible for coming up with creative solutions as to how we can fix the problem and go about it or minimize the impacts to everything else. So project manager meets science expert meets emergency response. Something like that, yeah. No pressure. Yep. None whatsoever.

Favorite ISS Experiments And Why

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That is fascinating. Have you do you have a uh a favorite science experiment that you've seen go through? Well, asking? I have a lot. Uh I can't say no much about that one. So I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to call it Hillcrest and learn more about it because it sounds fascinating. One of my one of my favorites, it's kind of the fun one, is Astro B. We have these little robots that fly around the space station, and we can have people on the ground will have sometimes different schools send up programs that they can control the robots themselves. So we're learning how to kind of free-fly things in space. It's really fun to watch. Another one of my favorites that's currently running is it's an experiment that's testing boil-off uh propellant in space. And so when we send rockets and propellant into space, they tend to lose some of the propellant they can carry just as it boils off into the atmosphere. So we're learning how to minimize that so that we can maximize the propellant that we take to space. Lots of random things. Uh we do lots of biological research with different cells, studying cancer or other types of things, and making good progress here on Earth. There's a company that has learned how to 3D print organs. They printed a meniscus, they can print uh different organs in space using cells from that someone sends up of their own from the ground. Lots of cool things going on. Uh you can't say it right now, but my jaw is on the floor. I think I could listen to you explain some of these projects forever. And I could have it out ofever. So besides a little through risk of our own.

How STEM Classes Built Real Skills

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You know, you obviously there's a lot of science that that is involved. You've mentioned that, you've mentioned your engineering. Recently you were the keynote speaker at the Canyon's Education Foundation, Gala, where you spoke about how STEM learning helped you to succeed. Could you touch on that again? Yeah, as I think back, even as early as middle school, being able to develop some of those skills that I mentioned. Critical thinking was definitely a big one, but I learned even through little hands-on demonstrations of things in elementary school. I remember as early as kindergarten, we were putting together this little cardboard tit of a car or something. I don't know. There's as early on as that, this hands-on experience has really helped me. And then being able to enter middle school where I first had my chance to take different electives that I wanted to, taking an exploring technology class where I learned some different wordworking tools and different machines and things that we were put together. I especially remember in high school being able to dive more into some of those foundational classes, things like physics and chemistry and math. And then another engineering class where I was first exposed to the world of 3D printing and out of the manufacturing, things like circuit design and putting together little Arduinos and push a button that lights a light bulb. Um you're so thrilled when that light bulb turned out. Oh, I was. It took a lot of work, and I was very frustrated. And I said, Why am I doing this? And then it works, and you say, It's all working. It's all there. And then it breaks again and you say, Okay, back to the drawing board. But you said he he found he didn't fail. He found a thousand ways to not make a light bulb. Exactly. And I found a thousand and one in the approximate day. So um yeah, and then going through school, again, all the hands-on experience that I had at Corner Canyon, especially, and then being able to participate in the C Tech program at the time, I was introduced to CAD mechanical design, being able to make 3D models on the computer and laser cut them or 3D print them, or even just study them and be able to make things based on the models that I created was really helpful. That specifically that CAD class was especially helpful when I went to BYU. Taking CAD at BYU is a notoriously difficult class. It's a strong learning curve. It takes a lot of work and hours and hours into the night, some people even staying overnight to finish these different projects because there's so much you need to learn and develop. But going in with that foundation of those two or three classes that I'd taken in high school made it so that that class was much less of a burden for me, actually really, really enjoyable. I was able to spend more time on the creative side and do what I wanted and get creative and uh play with the program a little more because I'd already learned so many of the basics even in high school. And then the last thing again related to C Tech was the engineering capsule program that we had worked to make a remote control lawnmower, just a fun little project that we got to come up with and put together, and it was really neat. They there are other companies that store my idea and now they make autonomous lawnmowers, and I'm gonna go make one that's better and cheaper because I can't afford them. But I'm first online. All right, take me many. All right, uh so yeah, thinking back on all those experiences and the skills that they taught me. Yes, the technical skills, but the collaboration, as you mentioned earlier, the critical thinking and those types of skills have really carried over into my job now. It's really cool to hear you say how much it prepared you for your college classes too. I mean, just college in general, but then you add engineering on top of that, I think a lot of students feel unprepared when they get to college. So to have those programs where we're able to say, this is what you're gonna experience, this is gonna get you that step up so that you enjoy college and you want to continue and learn more. Yeah, and I'd add it it helped. It was it's easier for me because I decided very early on that I wanted to be an engineer. But if I had decided at the end of my senior year that's what I wanted to do, I may have missed out on some of those opportunities, right, just by not taking advantage of it. And so what I'd encourage everybody is if you know that's what you want to do, then go for it and jump right in. Right. But if you're not quite sure, then still pick something and jump right in. Right. But even slightly interest you because you'll either find out that's what you want to do, you'll have a leg up, or you'll find out that's not what you want to do, and then you can spend your time in college doing something else, and you still have developed that skill set that will directly translate over to whatever you end up doing. And you have the time to adjust to whatever your passion becomes. Definitely. I think and you're exactly right. There are so many people who maybe they knew from elementary school or middle school what they wanted to do, but then there are others who enter college and they're still not sure. And you can find a path either way. It's just making sure that you're taking what you have learned and applying it to your new passion. Definitely. I have the privilege of getting to watch you speak to your little sisters, Ellie's class over Zoom last year. You said some similar things that you said, even from the donors at the Galo. We were always giving credit to the educators who worked with you when you were a student here at Canyons.

The Teachers Who Changed Everything

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What is it about those educators that made such an impact on your life? I like that you bring up that experience. That was a really full circle moment for me. A teacher at the time was Mrs. Saltmarsh in middle school. And Mrs. Saltmarsh was actually my kindergarten teacher at Oakallow in Element City. So cool. And so being able to present to her classroom with my sister there in the audience at the school that I had attended in middle school was a really full circle moment for me. I remember talking to you after I talked to Mrs. Sterling, who was my eighth-grade teacher as map teacher as well. I brought her down and we were able to talk more. She was someone who inspired me to think about working for NASA. She actually had a family friend who worked there and we talked about it. She also ran the math counts club that I was heavily involved in and taught me a lot about math and those twelve types of skills after school as well. And so when I think back to those experiences and those teachers and all the teachers, there were especially those who went above and beyond to provide me with opportunities, whether it was extracurricular, staying extra time outside of school to host a club like that, or staying outside of school to help me with something that I was struggling with as an assignment. Or being able to adapt the lesson we were doing at the time to what I needed, whether I needed something more challenging or something less challenging. Teachers were always willing to adapt. And that was a theme that I noticed with all of my Canyon School District teachers growing up, was their willingness to provide me with experiences that helped me where I was at. I can't speak for any other students in the classroom, right? But I can only imagine that the same was true across the board of these teachers love their students, they love what they do, and they love being able to provide experiences for each one. No. I you mentioned it was a full circle moment with your sister. How how did that feel? Was it surreal? You know, you like you said, you went from one side of the classroom to the other in a way, and your sister's there, she gets to see your big brother succeed. What what were you feeling? It was really special. I look up to all my younger siblings. I look up to my sister, even though we're twelve years apart. I look up to her and I learn from her every day. Um and to being in that classroom and then being able to go back the next year, I went and presented in person to the entire grade where I had cousins in the audience and family friends and people that I knew, and it's it means a lot to me to be able to give back to the school, to give back to the community, and especially to give back to my family and my siblings as much as I can. And your parents were able to zoom in with you when you couldn't come home for that one, and then they were able to join you for the gaylights uh uh this year. That was really cool to see that that family connection, that's beautiful. Oh, definitely. It was really special, and I owe everything I am and have done to them. Oh that's awesome. Shout out to uh the Nyman family. Oh, yeah.

AI As A Tool For Creativity

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I want to kind of take a left turn here. I'd love to hear your insight. We have so much technology that's rapidly progressing right now. You look at AI, for example. I remember when our cell phones came out and it was amazing that we could just walk around with a cell phone, right? I'm dating myself with that too. But then we had you know, Siri and Alexa, and that was incredible. Well, now we have artificial intelligence. It can be a tremendous tool. I think it could also it's moving at such a rate that I think there's a bit of a learning curve that we're having. As a scientist, how are you seeing AI progress? That's a good question. I as technology develops, as AI develops, I first hope that we never lose the human side of creativity. Yeah. Even talking about STEM education. I love advocating for STEAM education and making sure we're including the arts, which is something that's been so integral to my life and my development. I've been a musician my entire life. I watched my siblings who are in music and in art and all these different things, and being able to train both sides of the brain, so to speak, has been a game changer. I would not have the job that I do if I wasn't a musician. No matter how much hands-on STEM technology I would have learned, um when I interviewed with MASA, one of the biggest things we talked about was my music and my music history and the things that that had taught me. And as I've noticed, all the other interns that I was hired with and all the other people around me, everybody has something else that they do as well that helps to give context and to give more foundation and creativity to the engineering and the technical work that we do. And so I hope that as we utilize artificial intelligence, that we maintain the human creativity side, and that we use it as a tool to help boost our own creativity. My favorite things to use it for are I'll be writing a piece of code and I'll say, hey, AI, this is what I want to do. This is what I'm trying to accomplish. Do you have a couple different suggestions for me as to the most efficient way to write it or most efficient way to do it? This is what I'm doing, do you have any advice for me? Right. As opposed to saying, hey, I write code that does this for me. Right. Or I think of when I was in school myself, even using AI, I was working on um an essay or project or something. I said, hey, AI, these are the thoughts that I'm having. You know, what do you think? Is there anything that I'm missing? How do these tie together? Or almost using it more as brainstorming so that I could then go and produce the work myself. And that was very beneficial for me. Um honestly, I'm still trying to figure out how to use it in the workforce today. Uh we are making a big push in the industry to utilize it more and to find the best ways to do it. So I don't really have the best answer. But again, I would tie it all back to I hope that we can never lose the human creativity and that we can instead use it as a tool to help us brainstorm and come up with more ideas ourselves. I can't agree more. If you're part of the pound, I think it's a great launching pound. Uh-huh. Uh, you know, maybe your s you know, some days your creative ideas just aren't there, right? There are days where you're like, oh, this is such a great idea, and then we can do this and we can do this. There are other days where you just don't have that energy. And so I I too like to use it as a well, here's here's my baseline thoughts. Am I missing something? What can I add to this? And then I take that and I make it my own. I think uh you put that perfectly.

Moon Landing Facts And Mars Timing

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Speaking of creativity, I have to ask this question, or we have to have this discussion, because we are also in a world where we have so many sci-fi movies, right? Our I think that's our go-to genre these days is sci-fi, uh dystopian, you name it. First of all, I'm told I have to ask you this question. Alright. Did we land on the moon? I'm surprised that a lot of people still believe in the moon. Just kidding. No one's dead, we must death. We definitely did land on the moon. Um we have videos, we have evidence that we did it not only once, but six different times. There were twelve different people that landed on the moon, and we're so grateful for this science. The lessons that they learned and brought back to Earth, the science, literal science samples that we have, parshoot, the science samples that we have, some of which we've already opened and studied, and some of which they staffed away so that we could open later when we had more advanced capabilities to be able to study these samples. I'm also excited that we're pushing now to return to the moon to have a lasting presence as part of the art of this mission. So yes, Apollo did land on the moon, and we are learning from those experiences as we build newer and better rockets to go back and go further than ever before. But we go when no one has gone before. That's the plan. That's the goal. Speaking of when no one has gone before, do you think we're on track for Mars? I think we have a lot of work to do. But I think there are a lot of capable people at NASA and at other companies that we partner with who are doing what we need to and figuring out the research that we need to in order to get there. So on track, most definitely. As far as the time frame, I have no idea. Well, whatever that mobility is. If there's one consistency in space exploration, it's that nothing is actually consistent. You never know. Things always happen. Yeah. If there's anything consistent, it's the inconsistency. Can you even speaking to the Artemis Two mission, when it was supposed to launch, it had to be delayed for some different reasons, even something as small as a cloud in the sky to delay the launch. And so we continue to plan and we continue to look at these different opportunities, not only for Artemis II, but for every mission that's coming

Space Movies Through A NASA Lens

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after that. Yeah. I brought up Mars because I have to bring up one of my favorite recent movies. I'm the type of person that I cannot have a favorite movie that's just not possible. The Martian. So we have movies like The Martian, Project Hell Mary just came out recently. You have Interstellar. I'd have to know, with being a guy on the inside, how do these movies look to you? Are you sitting there the whole time going, no, they would never do that? Or do you go, wow, they got that right? What are what are the reactions to those movies? Can you go to those movies or do they just grind your teeth? Yeah. Definitely a bit of both. Well as a as a sci-fi fan myself, I love all of the movies. I love seeing them all. Um, I kind of have to set aside some of the things that aren't exactly accurate. Um but yeah, I I haven't seen Project Hama yet, but I've heard from one of the astronauts that we talked to last week, they said they saw it and it was awesome, except for the part where they didn't pressurize the suits before they left the airlock. Um who said they would not have survived. You're right. You've done it. You've been on a thing. You've been on a spacewalk yourself, and you know, and we know that you need to pressurize the suits. I don't know. Again, I haven't seen it. Maybe I heard maybe I miss heard him, but um yes, definitely a bit of both. Um there was a movie about the space station that I did watch, and that was actually hilarious to see all the inaccuracies, but we don't mean which one that was. Do you have a favorite uh space movie TV show? Did you grow up on Star Trek? I I am a big fan of Interstellar. Again, I'm a scientist, I'm a musician, and so to see that sci-fi movie and to hear the soundtrack by Han Zimmer is really cool. I'd have to say that's one of my favorite movies out there. And then all the others, of course, I love the movies that tell stories about NASA. I love hidden figures, I love the Apollo 13 movie, I love those sorts of movies that uh it's cool to see the history and how they portray it. Whether or not it's 100% accurate, you know, it's can't necessarily expect it to be, but it's cool to see all those stories as well brought to the screen. I recently watched uh A Million Miles Away. I thought that one was I love that one. Just it's so humanizing for NASA, right? I mean, the fact that I'm sitting across from someone right now who sits in operations control is just blowing my mind. But it was really cool to see that on the big screen too, of you know, he's an average guy. Yep. It's the American dream. He just wants to go to space. Yep. And it's cool to see I mean the people I work with and the astronauts themselves that we interact with, they come and visit us and we chat with them. I was talking to one the other day and knew he was a Steelers fan and I'm a Steelers fan, and we said go Steelers, and we bonded and take a picture, and it was great. That's cool. Like you said, it humanizes everything. And it's important for us to remember, too, in our job, that we are working with humans that are living in space and are away from home, and they have rough days just like we do, and so we we understand the workload that they have to go through as they're doing their science experiments, and we try and do what we can to help them that.

Wanting Space Without Leaving Earth

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Do you have dreams of going to space or are you good wearing a headset? I would love to go to space. We'll have to see if the ev if the opportunity ever presents itself, we'll have to see how I feel then and how my wife feels then. And we'll go from there. Okay. And working in the job that I do is very fulfilling. I say it's about as close as you can get to being an astronaut without actually going to space, is helping them do their experiments every day. We've got one of those blue horizon flights. What about do the trick for you? I just I just want to see the Earth from space. I think that'd be really neat. Say the big uh blueberry in the sky. I could go on and on and on. I'm sure we could even have a whole podcast about space movies and their inaccuracies, but how awesome that is. You know, taking hold of their journeys and following their dreams.

Think Bigger Fail Smarter Work Harder

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Whether that's outer space or right here on Terraferna, what message would you like to share with them? I remember my first day at NASA. I don't remember who presented it, I don't remember what the meeting was, but I remember this phrase really stuck out to me. They said, think bigger, fail smarter, and work harder. And so I'd say, whatever your dreams or your aspirations or your visions are, think bigger. Realize that you can accomplish those. And it doesn't have to stop there. Once you accomplish that, move on to the next thing, set a new goal, right? Continue to learn and grow and think bigger of what you can and want to accomplish. Then recognize that there will be setbacks. We all know that there's so many analogies you can give about setbacks, whether it's going to the gym or whatever, right? Everybody touched with these analogies. We're bound to fail, we're bound to make mistakes, and so fail smarter. Someone the other day also said fail intentionally, where not that you're trying to mess up, but everything that you do is intentional. And sometimes in engineering, we will intentionally break something to see how much force it could withstand and make sure that our model was accurate. And so sometimes we do test things to failure. And so whenever you do have the setback, see what you can learn from it and fail smarter. And then finally, the last message was work harder, which is there's in support of these dreams and there's these ambitions, it takes a lot of work, it takes a lot of discipline and diligence and sacrifice. That nothing that's easy in life is worth it. The things that are the most fulfilling take a lot of work. And so without overworking ourselves, of course, and we're taking care of ourselves, uh I would encourage everyone to keep working, to keep pushing, to work harder. And then to give back when you do accomplish. When you do become something, not to forget the people and the programs and everything that supported you, and to do what you can to get back to them. And that's been arguably the most fulfilling part of my short career already in NASA is being able to have conversations like this and visit people and visit places that mean so much to me. And so that's what's worked for me, so to speak. That's what I'd encourage everybody to do. It's beautiful to see one of our own succeeding so well and enjoying life. And I hope you'll join us again when you uh do make it to space if you watch up here that fun. Absolutely. I always like to stay close to home. So take care of Canyon School District for me. Take care of my family, my siblings, take care of everybody here, and we'll be back soon. Indeed. Thank you for eyes on the sky. All right. And thank you for

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