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Quotes by Astronaut
"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."
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"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."
17
"Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction."
17
"If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch."
17
"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."
17
"It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime."
17
"Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us."
17
"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it."
17
"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
17
"Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station."
17
"I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful."
17
"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."
17
"I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men."
17
"When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment."
17
"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
16
"The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel."
16
"One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye."
16
"So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth."
16
"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
16
"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."
16
"Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on."
16
"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."
16
"The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings."
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