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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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"Give luck a chance to happen."
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"I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition."
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"You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones."
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"I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game."
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"Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!"
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"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"
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"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
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"Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago."
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"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."
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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
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"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."
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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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"When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm."
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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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"During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab."
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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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"Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station."
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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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"Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months."
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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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