Duane G. Carey
Duane G. Carey
Duane Gene "Digger" Careyis a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth30 April 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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Obviously, as a jet fighter pilot, everybody looks forward to the ascent; all that power, you know, that seven million pounds of thrust going uphill.
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It's very important, especially during a Hubble mission, that we have a lot of photographic evidence of the condition of the telescope.
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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.
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And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.
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Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.
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So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.
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And, I was really impressed with how beautiful our country was and how friendly the people were.
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One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter.
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Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.
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I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.
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I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.
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I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.
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And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.