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"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."
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"I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I - as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again - it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul."

"You'll get over it. It's the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don't get over it because it is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you, and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?"

"We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father."

"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them."
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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."


"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."


"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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