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"The view of Earth is spectacular."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
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"Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet."
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"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
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"Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know."
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"We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat."
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"One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason."
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"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."
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"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."
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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."
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"Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit."
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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."
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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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"The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic."
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"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
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"So I decided on science when I was in college."
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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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