I come from Michoacán
My parents are from each michoacán
peasants who since childhood my dad
He went to the United States spent nine months
in the harvests to three different places
following the harvests in california and
he returned for three months to piety in
that is my mom and she marries me
dad was 19 years old my daddy moms me
all 14 years old and very
funny because when my mom listens
that story tells me hey my son
like history as bridges but
you know in the part where you say I had
14 years
I say yes and mom you can tell them that
I was 15
amato bad sdb looks bad but in those
times like that was true
they get married and they start to travel
to united states nine months three
different places three months in
michoacán the children come
I am smaller than four and
depending on what month
you are born is the country that touches you
I was born in August full post full
crops at the last stop in
stockton california then there is
where I was born
in the United States a brother also
was born in September was also born
there and I have a brother and a sister
who were born in December and who believes in
they were born here in Mexico and I
I make fun of them because I tell them
Hey, I can run for president
white introduced usa and having to
Who do we have right now? I think
it would be a good idea not
like yes good good good I’m not
announcing my candidacy in the media
please do not copy that but but what
what happens is that the course of
came the family you can appreciate
I think there were very few conditions
favorable to learn and then
battle vain in the studios because
imagine in a single school year three
different schools
We took three months of homework to Mexico
in my grandmother’s kitchen with a cup
chocolate tito and a Monday roll
to Friday from 8 to noon doing the
homework
that yes stained chocolate but
it was complete and then things did not
they changed stick well until a
teacher in the second grade that I
I was in the second grade month jean and
He came to my house and told my
dads the need that we did not have
to stay in one place and she
he used a very useful example that
It served my dad because my dad
defended because the high school jets though
let’s go to three different places
they are at school from Monday to
Friday that yes Saturday and Sunday in the
yya field seven days a week
the winter in the summer in the countryside
true but but they go to school
so my dad did not owe him anything bad
what he was doing and it was not until the
example that my 4 teacher used
fruit trees her the one of post um him
He said a problem to my dad told him you
I’m going to give a program to help me
to see if this helps to understand what
I want to say
and then I thought it was good
the teacher told her to imagine that she
gave away four fruit trees in
pots is fine I want you to
dig four milestones and raise your
small trees and take care of those that do not lack
nothing is fine but in three months
take another four digits on the ground
very fertile and transplant their little trees
that do not lack anything has three more
months more every three months do that
Then he was watching my dad
You said that you are an expert in
agriculture that happens to you throughout
his little trees for he was thinking and
said good young lady the little trees do not know
they are going to die but I do tell them the roots
they will never grab will not grow
deep is the little tree is going to stay
small and if it’s brutal maybe until
enjoy and you can remove the seconds
13 Changing the passion of my dad and how
they say in my ranch he fell twenty
he knew that those little trees represented
to your children and you have believed my dad
who just has an education
third grade of elementary school told the
teacher or that’s what the teacher refers
said yes to that I mean
then from that year forward
well we still went to Mexico this
year where he returned we no longer stopped at
two initial stops we made
We went direct to Northern California
and that’s where we started doing
our home trips to Mexico has been
reduced from three months to three weeks
began to attract our process
educational
then the dream to do to his natal
was born when I was 10 years old
I remember we were watching the
last mission of the apolo era
although his books slam his books of
history you know that apolo 17 was
the last mission where tomorrow both
the human to the moon and the whole world all
united states and the whole world for and
I saw all that live because what
they broadcast on live television
1972 was 10 years old I have 54 so
do not break in the head
i
imagine a 10 year old boy watching
television
a white and black selection with ears
of rabbit improve the reception if
can you imagine a child having that
rabbit ears antenna watching the
images to remember the name of
the person is astronaut chinchón
he and I seeing the images say already
when my dad let me loose the
antenna because he was the one who ordered me
stop the antenna
I sat and in front of the TV and the
hypnotized guide and I came out and from
up and I saw the moon
I went in and listened to the astronaut
chinchón talk to my center
logistics listened to reporter all
I remember his name walter cronkite
narrating the walk and that’s when I said
that there I am
at ten years ten years I knew that
area wanted to be the best thing
I could have done is share that dream
with my dad to share that dream
that same night that is not going to
Cost
I said and I took it out of the wave , it stayed
seeing when I told him I wanted to be
astronaut son told me ‘let’s go to the
I can not afford to cook big
eyes because the kitchen only spend three
things and two were already complete
first we do the homework my mom does not
sit there do the homework on the little table
of the full kitchen second we ate
and third as a complete family and them
like to apply justice
incomplete then for that option
big eyes but there are I go and I
I feel in the same chair where I feel
to my mom to do homework and it makes me
justify because I want to be an astronaut
and then I tell everyone what
I heard in the news there with the
astronaut got all the figures
of the moon quarter of a million miles
from afar I can not believe we can
to take the human to there is to return
what was safe and what I wanted to be
part of that and I think he saw the
determination of a 10-year-old child
He just looked at me and said, I think
yes you can do it but if you want
I said, you have to follow this
recipe a very simple recipe said that if
you follow it literally, I like you
Dad, I promise you can buy that
I instantly become a sponge
to absorb everything he’s going to tell me
my dad to see tell me dad very simple
said first first son decides what
wants to be in life second recognizes
how far away are you that third goal
create a road map to get you there
keep yourself focused education room
there is no substitute for an education and
fifth preparation told me you know the
effort you put your work on the
cucumber crops be that grape tomatoes
well, I’ll go with my books there in the
table said what do you put here and when
work that you receive and work you put it
in your work always delivers more than
that people expect from you mix everything
of your child and that’s the recipe for
succeed in life
I said wow cost so happy that
night because I said my parents think
what can I do astro
choose so I’m going to do it and put in
action
that recipe and believe me if it works
friends I add a sixth ingredient
it’s an ingredient that we’ve heard
here well common in all
conferences that ingredient is the
perseverance that we must not give ourselves
because I ‘m here because I ‘m here
friends to tell you that the nasa
rejected not once nor two nor three nor
four times
they were eleven times eleven 11 rejections
imagine, I would have given up
the second third fourth fifth time
I could never have gone to space and not
give up
in that perseverance and I discovered that
There are three stages to achieve a goal and
fast saves them the first
stage is that if you want to be a doctor
a lawyer and an engineer
you have to know the minimum requirements of
age and one puts and puts and puts them to
do and meet them and that’s what I did
I went to university
I studied a career in science
expertise five years of experience and
I started to put my first request
but not 6 rejections after I said something
I’m doing wrong is when I discovered
the second stage
the second stage is if you want to be like
someone successful because you have to study
the qualities of that person and you have to
work one to acquire those
qualities
then when he heard when he
they selected the generation of
astronauts that you have not selected me to
I obviously asked myself a very question
fundamental that they have that I do not
I have another word for the province
has
we hope that I do not have and the first
perhaps perhaps very easy comparison
apart from having studies very lukewarmly
friends experience very quivalent
we were the same but pilot pilot
pilot pilot
I was not a pilot who believes I took
lessons and I became a pilot
another year the same exercise says pilot
pilots pilot happy but then pl the
cebollita older and see that diver
Russian diver from Russia said that the
raids and I had to turn a
diver where the basics are negotiated
advanced to rescue master
I wanted to know that the one I wanted to
Nasa knew I knew how to dive
that’s what I did want to be like
successful people you have to study them and there are
to be like those people
the third stage that to excel the
competition
something must be done to make it stand out
gas and for me that that for me
came out in my career in the aspect of
that I was working on the
national government laboratory
American as a scientist and came a
I work in front of my office where I
required russia to help the russians
control your nuclear material and then
nobody wanted to go because it meant to go
to Siberia for 67 times a year 34
weeks to us nobody wanted to go for
there because it’s very cold but I
I said put me I put myself
I want to go and why because I had
heard on the radio that NASA and the
Russian space agency had signed a
agreement to build what was going to be
the cups
international space john then I
I put 1 and 1 and their fears and we’re going to
be working with the Russians in the
future in space
this work suits me because no more
I learn to work with the Russians the
culture but I can go with my boss and he says
today to the boss since I committed myself to
this one to this position give me a
teacher to learn Russian and he already puts
May for donuts and viruses
then that was what I said
that drew attention to the nasa and now
they told me naive here is a
country quote from mexico here is
here is a country quote from mexico that
studied and worked in laboratories to
Diving is a pilot and know Russian do not manches
you have to know it because we do not believe it
So if that’s the way it
interviewed that out of the seven
finalists but who believe that between
the 100 finalists of 8,000 applicants
among the 100 finalists not once but
twice three months and every time you have
to pass physical exam
psychological fitness test
interviews everything already the third time I said
well I was already feeling the age
because I was like 41 and I ‘m already in
the age more where they are no longer
selecting 1 and the surprise of my
obf wife pass the physical exam and
psychological exam fitness test
also and then it’s the third time the
twelfth I put my request that
finally the NASA selected me and I
said congratulations
is part of the 19th generation of
astronauts and then we were a
crew of a generation group of
14 astronauts that we entered in 2004
we train for two years
basic because he has not done them yet
nothing for him
the candidate and already when it shows if
you pass all the 2016 exams you’re already
eligible to have been assigned to a flight
2000 2003 2006 2007 assign me my
mission
another two years to train for this
mission has 2009 we carry out the mission
to the space station sts-128 14 days
to the space station and its server
as the third flight engineer in
line to pilot the ferry and
also operator of the three arms
robotic two on the space station
and one in on the ferry
if you allow me I want to teach you a
very fast video of the release because
is going to take you on a space trip
here we are seconds before launching
we launched midnight to vote 28 93
turbine
then it was in the background
eramet and we matured eight and a half minutes
in getting to space in this time that
do 0 to 25 thousand kilometers
hour in 8 minutes we are now at zero
gravity and there they see their server
say hello because now I already consider myself
an astronaut our crew
our crew is a crew
Swedish international detracts from that
these games are a good friend of mine who
that he opens the doors of the
overload to start the heating
here your server composing the
computers while others build
the equipment to exercise since not
we are walking and for the girls that
want to be astronauts here is a
colleague engineer good friend of mine
coast on the part of the crew
is seeing what his house is going to be
the next three months
the first objective is to leave the beech and
bring someone who is already three months
there are crew changes
the second objective is to deliver more than
seven tons of equipment teams of
food clothes
in short everything that is needed there
up at the station in that cylinder
to 7,000 tons of equipment
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we are already celebrating because we
together with the space station
international that allows to open
access doors
on the side of us and on the side of
the space station
they are also opening their
doors we already have a tunnel where no
we can change the ships of the
ferry to the space station the
commander was that nobody miss a Russian
so he served and russian
Six astronauts are them and we
we are 7 already very happy they
sell us not because we are good friends
but they have months above and they
They know we have fruit and vegetables
fresh
there he is he starts to demonstrate
own macho jokes
that’s where we have the seven
tons of equipment our second
goal of downloading and installing in the
space station both inside the
sun station and church
the third objective is to make three
walks where we are in installing
equipment that should be outside as
monjack bombs to monjack as í a
and finally the electric lines
hydraulic because we are going to install
another module on the next trip
after 12 of the 14 days in the
space
we disconnected to the station
spatial and here is the list that
we have of her is bigger
than a soccer field after that
these moments and now we already let the
atmosphere captures us and rinaudo in
softzone act was gold and heading home we
remember that we went out as tell a
spaceship and now it is an airplane
important airplane lowering diets
the weather is bad in florida so
we landed in southern california usa
space and how the commander will see what
lands a like a good pilot sailor
perfect better than my united flight
here to the city of mexico yesterday and
friends I think we’ve extended the
time a little but the only thing I want
to do is give that summary that my
parents as they saw me they fed me the
dream of wanting to be an astronaut
they gave me that license to be an astronaut
but more importantly they gave me the
tool that was the recipe of there
that we have to follow our dreams
as long as you define that goal
I recognize how far you are from her
create a route a plan how does it arrive
you prepare the day you study you want
You can not persevere
expired and recognize the required stages
to reach that goal the requirements
minimum acquire the qualities of
successful people and doing things for
excel and here I am friends for
give them the same promise that my
dad to me that if they continue to walk away from the
letter
that recipe and recognize those stages
I am here to tell you and
you can also reach your
own stars
many thanks
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