Name: Send Jim Kitchen to space! UNC professor competing for spot on all-civilian flight to space
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Description: Chapel Hill resident Jim Kitchen has visited all 193 countries recognized by the United Nations. So, what is his next goal? Seeing those countries from space.

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Chapel Hill resident Jim Kitchen has visited all 193 countries recognized by the United Nations. So, what is his next goal? Seeing those countries from space.

my parents were public school teachers in South Florida and the three best things for them about teaching where June, July and August And so they would pack the kids up the three kids up in a wood paneled station wagon and off we go during these hot human months of Florida for, of all places, Washington State. So we would go from the tip of Florida all across the country, and I had that. I was the youngest of the Children, so I got the rear facing seat. I saw the Continental United States, the 48 states backwards. I have one of the few distinctions, Um, and so that's really where I inherited my, uh, my my travel, my wanderlust from my parents. Um, and I came to Carolina, started a marketing company, and and I talked about this in my Twitter video. One of the first things that I did as a junior after I had started this marketing company was I began marketing these space trips low earth orbit, space trips for a company out in Washington state, and my friends ridiculed me mercilessly for this. Um, they would say to me, kid, how many space trips Did you sell this week? And And I was just hoping to sell enough so that I could go for free. And then Challenger happened. And, um so I started my own travel business, which allowed me to travel basically to travel the world. So over the next 10 or 15 years, I went to 80 or 90 countries, and I woke up 15 years ago. It was like, How many countries are there? You know, and I I think I Yeah, who did? At the time, it wasn't. I don't think Google was around Ask Jeeves or something. And and there was 193 countries, and I wonder if everybody's been to all of this. So I made a list of all the countries that I had been to and all the countries that I hadn't been to. And there was my list, um, and so methodically, over the last 15 years, I've just been visiting those one at a time, and it wasn't so much to being one of those people that had gone to every country. Um, you know, there's people that do it now like the faster the Guinness Book of World records Who can do it? The fastest. And that was not my thing. I didn't want to do it fast. I wanted to do it the way that I did the first 80 or 90 countries to go there, visit and to connect with people. Then what you do as an entrepreneur applying for this, you post a video on Twitter, which basically was my mid 22nd video sharing that story that I just told you about starting this, uh, selling space travel and my jury As an entrepreneur, I wrote a book, Um, that's company that will be coming out. Um, later in the year. I'm Hopefully the last chapter means something about space. Um and so then that that story is up on Twitter and then the world was to look at those videos and and to determine which was best in. And so the story was one thing. And then how viral the video went is one of the other gauges. And so I started this whole thing with 460 Twitter followers, and I got over 1103 tweets, which I'm told it's pretty good. Um, so I was competing against or am competing against YouTubers with five million plus followers. They ended up with 5000 retweets. So I ended up with 1000 and 400 with 460 Twitter followers. So I felt like I held my own. There was a lot of support in the U. N C. Community. A lot of support The, uh, instagram I assume they're going to email or call and look, my odds are if there were 100 and 50 people that applied, my odds are slim. Um, but I'm an entrepreneur. I am optimistic to be is to connect the world's eyes on this mission. Make this bigger than just a thing in the United States, right for civilians and and what better person than someone that's been to, you know, every country in Africa and as the imagine you're up in space and you see the continent of Africa coming for a lot of people that speak. Oh, there's Africa and they just see it for me. I'm like, Hey, Angola, what's up? How you doing? Mauritania. Hey, Libya! Gosh! Hey, I can see I can see the lights in Tripoli and Benghazi. That's really cool. Look at this suit, you know, like to be able to connect that because I think that the eyes of the world, you know, since the dawn of mankind, man's been looking up to to see what that's all about and to be there and be looking back to be able to connect that globally could be really, really cool. Um, and powerful for this. This mission, um, I'm a fundraiser to and in the goal of this is to raise $100 million for ST Jude's. Hope I win. But if I don't, I'm gonna make this happen one way or another.

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Send Jim Kitchen to space! UNC professor competing for spot on all-civilian flight to space

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<p>Ok. Rock Sebastian was mentioned, the ac Sebastian mentioned today, it seemed pretty spirited practice that everybody got some got out of their system. Yeah, I mean, that's the only way you can do. It. Certainly don't want to feel sorry for yourselves or anything that it's a new day and you got a new challenge tomorrow, put our best foot forward, you reconfigured the power play units a little bit in practice today is that I'm assuming it's more about execution than personnel at this point. Yeah, it always is. It always comes down to that. We had good players and maybe it was two units doesn't really, you know, scrambling the players around. I don't know how much that's gonna change. You gotta get a little more, um, dialed in on, on, uh, the execution part. You had tr check here for a couple of years. Is there anything that he's doing this series of surprises? No, we talked about him. Yeah. No, and we knew he was a good player so we got him and tried to keep him but didn't work out. I mean, business and, uh, you know, he's certainly been a huge factor how difficult is Canar to deal with. I mean, you know, obviously scored as many points in the head but he's been hardly the only guy that's, well, they got, they got that. I mean, like some real high talent. I mean, that's, that's, you know, you, you could tend to shut them down or try to for a little while but they just need a, a hair and all of a sudden they make you pay and that's, that's why they're elite, you know, um, among the other things that they do, but that's, that's the separator, you, your top on everything we ask for that, you know, below them. They, they're generating all the other ones are generating chances but the goal is high. Is there any concern with that aspect of it? Um, well, yeah, I mean, it's definitely concern. That's why we're in a hole we're in as well. But it's, it's, you know, like, what are you gonna do? You gotta, we know that one area we have to be better at and then the rest side we can't fault around it because it's just, you know, otherwise you have no chance. So we're, we're, you know, in a tough spot. We know that, but it's the old story boring where you gotta just worry about one game and see where it goes, what's missing on the power play that was there and the amateur series there, we'll see what's not. Yeah, I think we're just a little off on. Um, well, it's, listen, you gotta give them credit. I think that's the first thing you do. They're, they're doing their system really well and they're knowing when the pressure and what not, and we just haven't handled that the way we normally do. And I think that's really the beginning of it. Right. Obviously you guys have had a high shot volume for the first three games. Do you think just Durkin's finding more confidence through the more shots he sees? Is there any, you know, adjustment to make under? That's a question for him. I mean, you, you, you know, I think he's made a lot of quality saves too. I mean, I looked at him today and there's a couple that are well, world class, I mean, that and that's a couple that go the other way. That's the difference. I mean, you're not talking about it all you got, you gotta get better shots. I mean, he's been the difference and there's, there's no way around it and you got to give him credit and, you know, you can say we're not getting good enough shots, but you're making some good saves too. Have you made a decision yet on where you're going in that? No, no. Yeah. Right back to and we keep going power for all these reasons. Just do you, do you guys need to make quicker decisions with party, party? I mean, it's the right decision. It's not quicker. I mean, we were good all year. It's just right now we have, uh, you know, really? Yeah, I didn't love it again. The is in this series, I thought it was ok. But we, we hit a three game snag here and the wrong time of the year to hit it. What is that? Is that comfort in routine as a hockey player? You do the same things all season and then things get difficult like this. Do you, do you find some comfort in the routines that you have? Yeah, that's a good question. Um, I think you probably do, you know, um, something you can rely on something, you know, it's that they always, that next day mentality that we have in this league. And, um, and what's done is done, you gotta worry about the next thing that's on your plate. So, and I think that's, that's a good way to look at it. How do you balance desperation and what that means for your guys versus overdo it a bit. Yeah, I think the one thing that I, I love always about this group is that they, and you watch this fight. I mean, we pretty much always play that way. So it's not about, you know, I try to do too much or too long and I think they, they, they do what they always can and I'm assuming I'll do that again tomorrow. Consider the circumstances where you're happy with where your team work today. Very p yeah, very good. I mean, we, we all are grown here, man. We understand the situation but what you have to also approach it the right way and it's a great opportunity. We're still, we're still playing and uh you know, I think the focus is just on trying to find that to get that much better. All right. Thanks a lot. Thanks for the great.</p>

Send Jim Kitchen to space! UNC professor competing for spot on all-civilian flight to space

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