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"I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice."
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"The reason we're building SpaceX is to be able to make life multi-planetary."
"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
"The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb."
"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."
"The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff."
"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."
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"And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian."
"So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it."
"Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician."
"It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride."
"I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride."
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