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"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
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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."
"The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb."
"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."
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"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."
"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."
"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
"I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps."
"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."
"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."
"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."
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