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"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."
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"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."
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"A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in."
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"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."
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"Become aware of the physical distance and spatial orientation that you experience while in the company of others. Being empathetic and sensitive to a person's physical comfort zone can have a huge effect on the way in which you are received and perceived."
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"Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behavior, social interaction, and communication. Imagine invisible bubbles around every person that provides each of us with comfort zones for social engagement and interaction."
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"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
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"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."
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"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
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"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."
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"SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people."
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"I had both male and female heroes."
Heroism
"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."
Space
"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
School
"I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps."
Running
"NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts."
Space
"The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."
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"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."
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"Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same."
Practice
"I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science."
Science
"Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit."
Space
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