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"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."
Sally Ride
"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."
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"As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform."
Deborah Bull
"As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform."
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"I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip."
Christa McAuliffe
"I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip."
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"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
Tim Berners Lee
"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
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"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."
Elon Musk
"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."
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"I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle."
Sally Ride
"I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle."
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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."
Sally Ride
"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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"Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site."
Daniel Libeskind
"Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site."
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"Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going."
Pete Conrad
"Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going."
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"In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses."
Esther Dyson
"In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses."
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"Space is going to be commonplace."
Christa McAuliffe
"Space is going to be commonplace."
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"And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission."
Umberto Guidoni
"And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission."
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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."
Sally Ride
"My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane."
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"After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall."
Marc Garneau
"After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall."
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"If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens."
Brad Bird
"If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens."
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"The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff."
Harry Connick, Jr.
"The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff."
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"Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space."
Rob Bishop
"Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space."
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"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
Sally Ride
"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
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"You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet."
Elon Musk
"You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet."
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"Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space."
Sally Ride
"Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space."
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"Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air."
Kevin J. Anderson
"Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air."
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"As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins."
Barbara Cartland
"As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins."
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"It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad."
David R. Brower
"It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad."
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"We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built."
Larry Niven
"We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built."
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"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
Ira Glass
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
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"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."
Rem Koolhaas
"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."
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"Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground."
John L. Phillips
"Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground."
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"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
Anna Freud
"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
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"We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls."
Corbin Bernsen
"We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls."
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"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
Max Beckmann
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
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"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars."
Barney Oliver
"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars."
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"Canada and space are a natural fit."
Marc Garneau
"Canada and space are a natural fit."
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"I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head."
Cyndi Lauper
"I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head."
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"I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people."
Elon Musk
"I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people."
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"I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission."
Claude Nicollier
"I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission."
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"I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it."
Story Musgrave
"I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it."
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"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space."
David Hockney
"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space."
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"It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space."
Clifford D. Simak
"It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space."
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"I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice."
Chris Hadfield
"I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice."
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"Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer."
Antonio Perez
"Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer."
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"My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space."
Bobby Flay
"My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space."
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"There was a space program before there was integrated circuits."
Jack Kilby
"There was a space program before there was integrated circuits."
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"Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it."
Sarah Addison Allen
"Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it."
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"My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there."
Elon Musk
"My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there."
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"There should be a place and the space for all pop."
Malcolm Wilson
"There should be a place and the space for all pop."
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"We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space."
Lincoln Davis
"We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space."
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"Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue."
Marc Garneau
"Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue."
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"The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death."
Kurt Vonnegut
"The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death."
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"But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?"
Alan Vega
"But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?"
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"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
Michelangelo Antonioni
"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
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