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Здравствуйте, друзья! Здравствуйте, друзья! (Hello, Friends!) What is this!? Russian!? Yes. I've decided to teach myself Russian. Why? Well, even though I already speak English, French and Arabic, Russian is a language that I must eventually be fluent in.

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Welcome

Hello! Thank you for visiting TheSpaceMedic.com. This newly created website and blog will document my journey into becoming a physician astronaut. I hope you also learn something along the way! Please be sure to follow me on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook for updates, pictures, and more… Fly Safe – TSM

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Space Vehicle Mockup Facility. One of the #NASA buildings used to train #astronauts. This one, the largest, holds models of various vehicles, spacecrafts, and ISS modules. It is a massive facility. @nasajohnson #thespacemedic #houstonspacecenter (at NASA's Johnson Space Center)

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Can you find me in this image? #whereswaldo #thespacemedic #saturnv #houstonspacecenter #astronaut #nasa #samyramadan

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Love this shot. #space #suitup #style #nasa #iss #thespacemedic #houstonspacecenter #samyramadan @nasa @nasajohnson

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Actual moon rocks from Apollo 15! #moon #space #apollo15 #nasa #houstonspacecenter (at Space Center Houston)

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View of Mars landscape from my capsule! #Mars #marsgeneration #nasa #space #thespacemedic #redplanet #suitup

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@stationcdrkelly Nice threads! #spacesuit #stationcdrkelly #nasa. @astro_wheels I see your name on there somewhere!

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Hope I can bring my #kitten to #space.

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If the conditions are just right, space can be just as beautiful from the ground :). A little background info: This photo is from a campsite in/around the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota. It was shot using a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens mounted on a Nikon D610, using the following settings: F/2.0, 20 second exposure @ ISO 2500. I think I can see @stationcdrkelly in the photo! @nasa #stars #night #beautiful #space #thespacemedic #longexposure #blackhillsnationalforest

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Haha, cute. Found this is an old science magazine. @nasa @explorenasa #newhorizons #pluto #nasa.

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This is actual soil from the moon! What do you guys think about the case?! #moon #lunarsoil #spacecenter #apollo #thespacemedic #nasa (at Space Center Houston)

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Photo from the @nasajohnson Space Center. Very eerie!! #stars #space #nasa #houstonspacecenter #thespacemedic #capsule #lettherebelight (at Space Center Houston)

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An impressive photo I took showing the #dangers of #space. "Plastic Debris - This 4 inch thick aluminum block was hit by a 1 inch half-ounce plastic cylinder at 15,200 mph. The plastic went almost all the way through the block, showing even plastic can be damaging at orbital speeds." @NASA #houstonspacecenter #astronaut #spacedebris #orbit #speed #thespacemedic #DSCOVR

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"A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. This color image of Earth was taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope. The image was generated by combining three separate images to create a photographic-quality image. The camera takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband filters -- from ultraviolet to near infrared -- to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used in these color images. The image was taken July 6, 2015, showing North and Central America. The central turquoise areas are shallow seas around the Caribbean islands. This Earth image shows the effects of sunlight scattered by air molecules, giving the image a characteristic bluish tint. The EPIC team is working to remove this atmospheric effect from subsequent images. Once the instrument begins regular data acquisition, EPIC will provide a daily series of Earth images allowing for the first time study of daily variations over the entire globe. These images, available 12 to 36 hours after they are acquired, will be posted to a dedicated web page by September 2015. The primary objective of DSCOVR, a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Air Force, is to maintain the nation’s real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of space weather alerts and forecasts from NOAA." Wow! #NASA #art #thespacemedic #planetearth #earth #beautiful #usa #northamerica

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Recognize any of these patches? @nasajohnson @nasa #zarya #astronaut #thespacemedic. Photo was taken on Thursday at the space vehicle mock-up facility! What an amazing building! (at NASA's Johnson Space Center)

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Russian space suit on display at the #nsbri office in #houston. It looks like an arm is reaching out to me in his/her visor! @nasajscstudents (at Rice University BioScience Research Collaborative)