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"And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite."
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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
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"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."
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"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."
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"If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part."
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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."
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"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."
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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."
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"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture."
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"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."
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"If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors."
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"And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight."
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"I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image."
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"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."
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"And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite."
Chance

"And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission."
Space

"And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal."
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"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then."
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"And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class."
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"For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind."
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"And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight."
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