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Umberto Guidoni

"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."

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"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."

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Donna Grant

"Mind your driving."

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"I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done."

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Donna Grant

"I quit driving, I'm not retired."

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Donna Grant

"Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher."

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Donna Grant

"I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage."

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Donna Grant

"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."

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Donna Grant

"I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on."

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Donna Grant

"It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach - murder, rape, drunk driving - as long as we go on a TV show and apologize."

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Donna Grant

"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."

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Donna Grant

"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."

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Umberto Guidoni
"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."

Will

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Umberto Guidoni
"And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal."

Goal

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Umberto Guidoni
"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then."

Experience

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Umberto Guidoni
"For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind."

History

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Umberto Guidoni
"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."

Driving

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Umberto Guidoni
"During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab."

Power

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Umberto Guidoni
"When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm."

Space

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Umberto Guidoni
"And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight."

Design

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Umberto Guidoni
"And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite."

Chance

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Umberto Guidoni
"And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer, I mean, in order to be able to complete the... what we want to accomplish."

Space

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