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"I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views."
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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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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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"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."
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"No one on this Earth knows how old I am."
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"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."
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"I am very down to earth and practical."
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"I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter."
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"I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career."
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"And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that."
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"So, we have to get up and get pumped up for each day."
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"And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it."
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"You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!"
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"Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space."
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"I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college."
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"Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with."
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"Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us."
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