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John L. Phillips
American
Astronaut
Born:
Apr 15
,
1951
Day
Looking
People
Space
Time
Will
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We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.
John L. Phillips
Science
Space
Mind
Will
Job
Crew
Crew Members
Our
Those
Guinea
Guinea Pig
Focusing
Guinea Pigs
Members
Fine
Take
Part
Longer
Pig
Pigs
Going
Human
Being
Experiments
Which
Us
Farther
Many
Things
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
John L. Phillips
Flying
Airplane
Has-Been
Inspiration
He
Been
Years
Quite
Certainly
Wars
Dad
Now
Served
Two
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.
John L. Phillips
People
World
Space
Looking
Lost
Consider
Back
Never
Part
Passage
Were
Ships
Brave
Same
Northwest
Space Exploration
Again
Mean
Century
Exploration
If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.
John L. Phillips
Business
Other
Kind
Some
Risk
More
Risky
Part
Like
Territory
Doing
Might
Exploration
Less
Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways.
John L. Phillips
Time
Day
People
Research
Our
Ways
Those
Visits
Only
Support
Maintenance
Piece
Scientific
Ready
Scientific Research
Still
Lot
Where
Different
Board
Working
Working Day
Large
Even
Different Ways
Shuttle
Two
Two People
After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.
John L. Phillips
Robot
Crew
Complete
Complex
More
Vehicle
Arms
Orbit
Maybe
After
Room
Assembly
Specialists
Now
Larger
Right
Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.
John L. Phillips
Day
You
Kind
Impacts
Angles
Take
Weightless
Feel
Exercise
Around
Conditions
Up
Trailing
Going
Behind
Just
Legs
Your
Measure
Ground
Researchers
Compare
We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.
John L. Phillips
Work
Time
Extra
Our
Out
Carry
Would
Some
Percent
More
Toward
Like
Devote
Scientific
Maybe
Spare
Spare Time
Program
Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
John L. Phillips
Progress
Space
Accident
Has-Been
Carrying
Russian
Columbia
Supplies
Smaller
Vehicle
Vehicles
Since
Been
Space Program
Literally
Agency
Us
Amount
Bringing
Load
Need
Program
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