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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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"Space is going to be commonplace."
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"The reason we're building SpaceX is to be able to make life multi-planetary."
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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."
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"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
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"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
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"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
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"There should be a place and the space for all pop."
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"I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle."
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"The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb."
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"It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected."
Time
"We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig."
Science
"If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory."
Business
"My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration."
Inspirational
"Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge."
Research
"There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday."
Risk
"In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration."
People
"I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density."
Behavior
"I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it."
Decision-Making
"The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle."
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