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Quotes by Astronaut
"The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited."
45
"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit."
21
"We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks."
14
"Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is."
10
"It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life."
10
"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."
7
"So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things."
7
"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."
6
"When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on."
6
"I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."
5
"As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying."
5
"I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out."
5
"Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal,."
5
"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."
3
"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."
3
"And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight."
3
"Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there."
3
"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
3
"Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into."
3
"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10."
3
"You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn."
3
"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."
3
"Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home."
3
"This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century."
3
"You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers."
Time,
2
"I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force."
2
"Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space."
2
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