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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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"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it... you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't."
"Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude."
"One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing you will ever have to go through is having a child die at Christmas time. The third hardest thing you will ever have to go through is telling your child that their friend and family member has passed away. The bittersweet moment that pulls you through it all is when your child says, "Mom don't cry. They're okay because they are with God now and they promise not to leave until they help you get through this."
"Time wasted can never be compensated."
"The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds."
"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."
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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."
"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."
"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
"My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane."
"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."
"We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form."
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