Soyeon's leaving for Russia on Wednesday, so we just wanted to give her a happy sendoff and our support, as this site has since well before she was selected as a final candidate (see here and here). As many of you know, I've been doing interviews with her since she started down the final stretch of the Korean Astronaut Program, the first of which was conducted last summer.
Below is a picture from when she was part of the final 10 candidate cut, when the 2nd video interview was recorded.
Below is when she made it to the final two, when the 3rd interview was recorded, which will be presented on this site soon.
And the final shot is of Soyeon conquering everyone's biggest intergalactic fear.
Although Soyeon meant to take the time to write this in English, she has been wrapping things up at school, in her lab, and is spending tonight doing her penultimate night of packing all her things. So she was barely able to get out this message:
"따뜻하고 응원하는 말들을 남겨줘서 너무너무 고마워요
그런 마음들 때문에라도 더 열심히 해야겠단 생각이 들었어요...
그리고...앞으로도 계속 응원해 줄꺼라고 생각해도 되겠죠?
혹시라도 궁금한게 있거나...하고 싶은 말이 있으면 알려주시길..."
"I want to thank you all for the warm words of encouragement you've left.
It is because of such kind sentiments that I've been reminded to try even harder to do my best.
Also, I'll be able to count on you to root for me in the future, right?
If you have anything you're curious about, or anything you want to say, I hope you'll let me know."
What she's referring to is a final interview that we've decided (that we've figured out) is logistically possible since I'll be in Myeongdong working when she is on her way to Seoul Station for the train back to school. Since we've done a summer, fall, and winter series of interviews, we thought a final "spring" one would be nice to lay down, especially since it'll be her last full day in Korea.
How appropriate, right? Also, since some questions have come up, and we're in an interactive medium, we thought it would be cool to see if there were any questions that you'd like to possibly include in the final interview. We might have like only 20 minutes to do this, so we she can't do much, but we'll do what we can.
