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"We have the Fine Guidance Sensors, one of which we will exchange out of three. Another one we changed on the last servicing mission, and on the fourth servicing mission in 2003 or 2004, the third one will be exchanged."
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"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."
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"A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in."
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"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."
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"Become aware of the physical distance and spatial orientation that you experience while in the company of others. Being empathetic and sensitive to a person's physical comfort zone can have a huge effect on the way in which you are received and perceived."
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"Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behavior, social interaction, and communication. Imagine invisible bubbles around every person that provides each of us with comfort zones for social engagement and interaction."
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"When your out of space, your out of place at the same time."
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"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
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"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."
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"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
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"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."
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"The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum."
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"On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space."
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"In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays."
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"Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me."
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"I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time."
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"Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also."
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"The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner."
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"My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe."
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"The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place."
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"You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers."
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