Quotes about american-astronaut
american-astronaut believe beyond envelope experiment pushed reasons short work
It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past. Claude Nicollier
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I have fought the centrifuge ever since. When I visited Star City in Russia, I told them, you guys don't need a centrifuge, they are a waste of time. Wally Schirra
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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. Duane G. Carey
american-astronaut benefit mission months short six until
I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.
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.
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
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The computer that is presently on board is a relatively old computer that has limited capability in terms of its speed and its memory capacity.
american-astronaut mathematics unless unruly
The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.
american-astronaut good job message personal teachers
This is a kind of a personal message from me, and that is that teachers are good communicators, they do an important job in our society. Christa McAuliffe
american-astronaut controlled covered inside reasonable
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.
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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
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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.
american-astronaut flights people satisfying sort
I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight. Shannon Lucid
american-astronaut crew exciting mission sure
I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.
american-astronaut touch
I touch the future. I teach. That's going with me.
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.
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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. Robert Crippen
american-astronaut meal russian segment spent time worked
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 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.
american-astronaut children spoken wisdom words
Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
american-astronaut multitude orbit possible scientific space
We're doing a multitude of different scientific experiments on orbit on things that are only possible to be done in the space environment.
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.
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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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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 groups mathematics obtained theory
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 mathematics
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
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.
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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.
american-astronaut
Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.