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Quotes by Astronaut
"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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"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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"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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"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."
21
"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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"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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"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."
20
"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."
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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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"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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"If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement."
20
"Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward."
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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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"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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"Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going."
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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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"NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts."
19
"I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts."
19
"The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before."
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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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"And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal."
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"Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit."
18
"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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"It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It's the most critical part of the flight, the ascent."
18
"I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did."
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"I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader."
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"You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn."
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"And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station."
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