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"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."
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"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."
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"In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays."
"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."
"My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas."
"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 My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also."
"My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe."
"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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