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"After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat."
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"Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door."
Help
"You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready."
Time
"A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to."
Life
"I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks."
Talking
"My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids."
Family
"The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights."
First
"Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle."
Society
"We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights."
First
"He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us."
People
"There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well."
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"Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not."
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"After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat."
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"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
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"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
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"These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper."
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