[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 202 (Wednesday, December 3, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H5013]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 RECOGNIZING FUTURE ASTRONAUT YURI KUBO

  (Mr. SHREVE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHREVE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize a fellow Hoosier and 
Purdue University engineer, Mr. Yuri Kubo. Yuri is a native of 
Columbus, Indiana, back in my district. He was recently selected as one 
of just 10 candidates from a field of 8,000 to join NASA's next 
astronaut program. That is rarefied air by any measure.
  Over the next 2 years, Yuri and an elite cohort will train at NASA 
Johnson Space Center down in Houston as they prepare for missions to 
the International Space Station, the Moon, and whatever comes next. 
Yuri reflects the kind of scientific talent that Indiana grows.
  Purdue, my own alma mater, has long been a launchpad for many of 
America's sharpest engineers and explorers, and he is rocketing that 
tradition forward. We are filled with Hoosier pride back home to see 
Yuri representing our State on a stage that is literally out of this 
world.

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