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"The view of Earth is spectacular."
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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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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
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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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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
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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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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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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."
Space
"NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts."
Space
"So I decided on science when I was in college."
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"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."
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"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."
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"So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth."
Earth
"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."
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"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen."
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"It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission."
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"Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space."
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