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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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"Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight."

"I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps."

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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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