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"Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School."
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"Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door."
"Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle."
"It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space."
"He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us."
"The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights."
"After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat."
"There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with."
"I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job."
"A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to."
"I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks."
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