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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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"Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door."
"Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle."
"You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready."
"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."
"He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us."
"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."
"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."
"There are a lot of dedicated people out there that don't get the recognition that we get, but they're as important as the people that are sitting in the vehicle."
"There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with."
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