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"But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
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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."
"The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."
"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."
"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."
"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
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