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american-astronaut roll
Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going. Pete Conrad
american-astronaut seconds
The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
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We have managed to hang in for 55 years, which isn't bad. My wife says our marriage has lasted so long because I was away half the time! Wally Schirra
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I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well. Leroy Chiao
american-astronaut directors efforts figuring ground operate work
But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.
american-astronaut bit involve sure
Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.
american-astronaut places taking
The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.
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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.
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My parents always tried to teach us the best of both, the Chinese ethic of hard work and education and the American ethic of innovation of aspiration.
american-astronaut several since
I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle. Robert Crippen
american-astronaut children spoken wisdom words
Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
american-astronaut changed exchange fine fourth guidance last mission third
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. Claude Nicollier
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You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
american-astronaut apart existence notion overcome strange truths
We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.
american-astronaut forward imagine looking looks seeing
Well, let me tell you: when I'm in space, I'm looking forward to looking back and seeing the Earth. I just can't imagine what it looks like. Duane G. Carey
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Apollo was just too big, like flying a big transport airplane, which fighter pilots don't really revere. Gemini was just about the right size.
american-astronaut becomes couple flights life people
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. Shannon Lucid
american-astronaut boy care farm magic took
I took care of the rabbits, of course, because I was the farm boy who could do magic with animals. I can still do anything with animals. Story Musgrave
american-astronaut began enjoy external front outside tank
It was only after we got the first maneuver off that I began to enjoy the outside view. We actually could see the external tank out in front of us.
american-astronaut mathematics
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
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The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it. James Lovell
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The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
american-astronaut fairly interested owned ridden since
I've always been, since I was fairly young, I've been interested in motorcycles and have owned them and ridden them and raced them, things like that.
american-astronaut employee military naval officer
As a Naval officer, I was trained, essentially bred, to be a military aviator. I was a Naval officer on assignment, not an employee of NASA.
american-astronaut bring handle lots press within
Within NASA, there were lots of things that were not appropriate to bring out to the public, because the press did not handle it well.
american-astronaut change flying machine
In Mercury, you couldn't translate. You could just change attitude. But you were actually flying it like a flying machine in Gemini.
american-astronaut assembly performed space tasks totally
In a way, what we do is not totally different from some of the tasks that will be performed for the assembly of the International Space Station.
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The New Testament tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. We are to deal with them in terms of God's law. We owe them such fair dealing. Gary North
american-astronaut touch
I touch the future. I teach. That's going with me. Christa McAuliffe
american-astronaut attitude fire jets
It's all done by computer. The jets will fire and it'll just be in the attitude that we need to have it in to come back to Earth.
american-astronaut came circling coming lake land pattern
For landing, we came in over Edwards about 40,000 feet. We set up for a big circling pattern coming in to land down on the lake bed.
american-astronaut expecting experience lifetime tired
I'm expecting to have a lot of fun. I'm expecting to be tired at the end. But I'm expecting it to be the experience of my lifetime so far. Laurel Clark
american-astronaut few guess high school taken
I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.