DANIELLE OLESZCZUK: Hi, my name is Danielle Oleszczuk, I'm from Toledo, Ohio and my question for CNN is: "How do you become an astronaut?"</s>CADY COLEMAN, NASA ASTRONAUT: I like to tell kids that there is a secret to being an astronaut, and the secret is is that no one just becomes an astronaut. Everyone is something else first. I, myself, am a chemist; I'm a scientist. We have other scientists, we have engineers, we have doctors, we have pilots, We have some military folks, some folks who've never been in the military, some folks who know how to fly, some people that learn how to fly with NASA. A whole range of people. And for any of the kids out there that would like to be astronauts, they need to remember that they should find something they love to do, be as good as they can be at it, and then hope that NASA needs what they do in the space program.
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