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"In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration."
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"My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration."
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"It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut."
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