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Leroy Chiao

"Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction."

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"Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction."

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A.E. Samaan

"Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility."

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A.E. Samaan

"To care is our endless sense if duty."

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A.E. Samaan

"To avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!"

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A.E. Samaan

"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."

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A.E. Samaan

"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."

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A.E. Samaan

"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."

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A.E. Samaan

"Our higher duty is to fear God."

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A.E. Samaan

"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."

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A.E. Samaan

"You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business.They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies."

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A.E. Samaan

"But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to the extent of my ability when it was engaged in a war, unless I non-co-operated with the Government and renounced to the utmost of my capacity the privileges it offered me."

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Leroy Chiao
"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

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Leroy Chiao
"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."

Earth

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Leroy Chiao
"Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is."

Career

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Leroy Chiao
"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."

Hope

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Leroy Chiao
"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

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Leroy Chiao
"I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft."

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Leroy Chiao
"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

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Leroy Chiao
"But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together."

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Leroy Chiao
"I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader."

Leadership

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Leroy Chiao
"I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so."

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