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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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"Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing but grief. She could feel herself trying to push back time, but even the best witchcraft could not do that."
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"And too soon Marred are those so early Made."
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"To waste time is to lose life."
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"More. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again..........anything."
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"Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from above."
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"The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth."
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"The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire."
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"Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared."
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"She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness."
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"Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence."
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"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."
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"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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"It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission."
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"Different astronauts sleep in different ways."
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"It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!"
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"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
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"The view of Earth is spectacular."
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"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."
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"But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth."
Earth

"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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