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"Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit."
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"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."

"A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in."

"Some facts have been explored at deeper level others not... but still there will come one question probably you will thought that what you see outside of the Earth I mean in the space... that's all... but unfortunately, it's not all there is more and more out there!"

"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."

"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."

"There was a space program before there was integrated circuits."

"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space."

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"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."

"I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps."

"The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency."

"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."

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

"The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women."
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