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"I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane."
"So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do."
"Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom."
"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."
"Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight."
"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
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