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"There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here."
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"It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space."

"We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights."

"Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School."

"After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat."

"A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to."

"I think we've done that. But it's not something you really notice, 'cause I've always thought the people here have always done their best, and they continue to do their best. They just might do it a little bit differently."

"The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights."

"Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door."

"My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids."

"He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us."
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