Astronaut

Research is creating new knowledge.

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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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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

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Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

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I think everything depends on money.

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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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Exploration really is the essence of the human spirit, and to pause, to falter, to turn our back on the quest for knowledge, is to perish.

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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

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If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

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We have the Fine Guidance Sensors, one of which we will exchange out of three. Another one we changed on the last servicing mission, and on the fourth servicing mission in 2003 or 2004, the third one will be exchanged.

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Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back.

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As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.

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History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

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The Eagle has landed.

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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

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Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history

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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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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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I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88 chance of mission success and maybe 96 chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

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But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

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It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

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