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Quotes by Astronaut
"We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point."
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"Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit."
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"Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable."
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"We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine."
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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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"We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab."
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"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it."
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"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."
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"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."
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"I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself."
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"And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight."
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"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."
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"Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same."
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"Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up."
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"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."
28
"I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?"
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"Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on."
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"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."
Will,
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"I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps."
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"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."
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"And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class."
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"I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century."
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"The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting."
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"And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right."
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"So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him."
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