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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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"Usually it is through loss that things come to be of value."

"Times goes far a lot of I still remember my father what he said in January "Books aren't important" March 27 he died (suicided!).... ANd what has left me??A lot of great people died this year, privous and every other which will come, believe or not the heart can't take it!Only it can take it, if it reads books, watches films and does this which make this person to be out of the humanity once out, never sound hear, never sad."

"When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be."

"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."

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

"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."

"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."

"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."

"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!"

"I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science."
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