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"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."
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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."
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"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."
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"I am very down to earth and practical."
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"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
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"Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth."
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"Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both."
Experience
"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."
Earth
"One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye."
Exploration
"I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission."
Space exploration
"I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft."
Thought
"I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing."
Science
"There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant."
Food
"I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well."
Time
"Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature."
Nature
"I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it."
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