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"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."
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"So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do."

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"The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women."

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