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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american-astronaut chance joke whenever
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.
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 bit feels motorcycle
I think a lot of people, myself included, like to be... like to do expeditions and trips. To me, this feels a little bit like a motorcycle trip.
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.
american-astronaut condition evidence hubble
It's very important, especially during a Hubble mission, that we have a lot of photographic evidence of the condition of the telescope.
exploration wanted new-things
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.
astronaut cases wells
Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.
done columbia amount
There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
each-day get-up
So, we have to get up and get pumped up for each day.
two space half
Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.
selfish sight views
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.
pilots natural
And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.
second-chance firsts separation
You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.
opportunity people way
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.