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"We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food."
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"A full fridge is like an empty one: What am I going to eat?"
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"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
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"Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG."
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"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."
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"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."
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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."
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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
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"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
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"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."
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"In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things."
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"I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it."
Science
"We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that."
Learning
"We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it will be, and that's highly important; we need to get to where the crew size is bigger."
Will
"It's really kind of a challenge to keep coordinated with the two station crews that we'll be interacting with. And of course one of them launched quite some time before our mission."
Time
"There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well."
Medical
"It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime."
Experience
"We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab."
Earth
"A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle."
Flying
"It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home."
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