text:  I like to go into the mountains and backpack with minimal, you know, sort of resourcing. So I was already really fond of challenging myself in that setting. So in some ways, my two loves kind of came together in this opportunity to both be a scientist and a research subject, but also to contribute to space travel, something I never really thought that I would get a chance to do. So it was kind of a combination of things that coalesced. And of course, like most people, I applied thinking I had no chance. So...