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"But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth."
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"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"
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"My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane."
"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
"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."
"Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit."
"We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form."
"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."
"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."
"I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps."
"It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!"
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