"When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on."

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"When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on."

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"In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles."

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"A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle."

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"I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!"

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"You've got to keep things flying."

Keith Emerson, British Musician

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"Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price."

Amelia Earhart, American Aviator

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"I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship."

Mark Hamill, American Actor

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"The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur."

John Corry, American Journalist

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"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."

William Golding, English Novelist

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"Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying."

Neil Armstrong, American Astronaut

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"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."

Jacques Lacan, French Psychologist

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"Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it."

NASA

"There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here."

People

"Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature."

Music

"Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into."

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"I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force."

Aviation

"If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun."

Force

"As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control."

Dream

"It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life."

Life

"It looks like the future's really bright."

Future

"When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on."

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