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How Did You Become an Astronot?
The crew was coming in with separate identities as individuals, but john wanted them to create a group identity. John took the group into crew quarters. It's basically a lock down where they're normally quarantined before a space flight. He had them do simple activities together, like cooking a meal and raising something they had in common which, strangely, they hadn't discussed. Rarely do they talk about it with each other. You just are astronot. So they shared their stories. I like to think of them as origin stories. For once, that's not a term from psychology. I got it from comic books. And i clearly remember the watching the american astronom go ing