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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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"I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge."

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

"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."

"Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months."

"And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight."

"And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission."

"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."

"Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station."

"I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image."

"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."
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