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"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."
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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."

"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."

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"Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same."
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