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Claude Nicollier

"Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me."

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"Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me."

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"My heart is aching for the people of Nice, Italy. I am so sad that I have no words to express my frustration."

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"While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all."

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"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another."

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"Your heart is your temple."

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"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."

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"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."

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"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."

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"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."

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"My home is my heart. I am wandering through the way of love."

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"She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away."

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Claude Nicollier
"My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe."

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Claude Nicollier
"On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space."

Direction

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Claude Nicollier
"Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also."

Dream

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Claude Nicollier
"It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past."

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Claude Nicollier
"I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission."

Space

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Claude Nicollier
"I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person."

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Claude Nicollier
"The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place."

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Claude Nicollier
"You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers."

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Claude Nicollier
"The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum."

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Claude Nicollier
"I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time."

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