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Quotes by Astronaut
"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
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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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"In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays."
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"So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not."
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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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"Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back."
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"Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God."
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"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then."
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"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."
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"And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight."
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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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"There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant."
Food,
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"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
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"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."
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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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"I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space."
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"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
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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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"Every shuttle mission's been successful."
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"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."
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"If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun."
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"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."
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"Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass."
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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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"Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it."
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"And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc."
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"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,
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"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."
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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."
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"I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did."
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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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