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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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"My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane."


"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."


"Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom."


"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."


"Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight."


"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
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