"I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft."

Thought, Flying

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"I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft."

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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

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"I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so."

Nation

"Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is."

Career

"Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction."

Duty

"One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye."

Exploration

"One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space."

People

"There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant."

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"Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature."

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"But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together."

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"I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission."

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"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."

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