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"NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts."
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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."
"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space."
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
"The future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species."
"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
"My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space."
"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
"I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do."
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"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."
"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."
"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."
"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
"I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job."
"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen."
"The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."
"It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission."
"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
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