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"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
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"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
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"The future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species."
"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
"My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space."
"I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do."
"I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it."
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"Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same."
"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."
"I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job."
"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen."
"The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."
"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
"It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!"
"My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane."
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