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John M. Grunsfeld
American
Astronaut
Born:
Oct 10
,
1958
Earth
Hubble
Life
Me
Science
Space
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Absolutely the most fun thing to do in space and rewarding thing, in many ways, is to look back at planet Earth.
John M. Grunsfeld
Space
Back
Earth
Ways
Absolutely
Look
Most
Rewarding
Planet
Planet Earth
Fun
Many
Fun Thing
Thing
I thrive with high-performance challenges in front of me.
John M. Grunsfeld
Me
Challenges
Thrive
Front
Here on Earth, we're exposed to asteroids hitting the Earth, eventual changes in the Sun, changes in the Earth's climate, things we're doing to the Earth's climate. If we want to survive, we need to become a multi-planet species. That's further down the road, but the first wave is going to be the explorers.
John M. Grunsfeld
First
Become
Down
Changes
Wave
Earth
Further
Sun
Road
Climate
Doing
Survive
Hitting
Going
Want
To Survive
Explorers
Down The Road
Exposed
Eventual
Species
Things
Here
Need
Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe.
John M. Grunsfeld
Life
Universe
Sciences
Being
Unified
Search
If I could live in space, I would definitely do that.
John M. Grunsfeld
Space
Live
Definitely
Would
Could
If I Could
It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's quite an achievement.
John M. Grunsfeld
Me
Achievement
Amazing
Space
Lasted
Pretty
Had
Years
Quite
Space Shuttle
Shuttle
Program
The strangest thing I've found is that when I got to space, I felt more comfortable in space that I've ever been on Earth before. I just felt this is my home.
John M. Grunsfeld
Home
Space
Before
Earth
More
Comfortable
Felt
Got
Been
Just
Strangest
Found
Ever
Thing
I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.
John M. Grunsfeld
Space
Drive
Important
Important Things
Think
Broad
Out
Most
Always
Go
The Most Important
Space Exploration
Interesting
Exploration
Fascinating
Activity
Found
Compelling
Things
Humans
A deep ocean under the icy crust of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth.
John M. Grunsfeld
Life
Ocean
Earth
Further
Possibilities
Exciting
Crust
Beyond
Opens
Up
Icy
Deep
I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.
John M. Grunsfeld
No Difference
See
Between
Scientific
Human
Difference
Exploration
There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally.
John M. Grunsfeld
Life
Science
Perspective
My Life
Engineering
Spending
Pants
Astronaut
Systems
Learned
NASA
Years
Get
Depended
Literally
Gained
Activities
Seat
We don't know how many planets we're going to have to examine before we find life, and not finding it on 10 or 100 doesn't mean it's not there. This may be very tricky.
John M. Grunsfeld
Life
Before
Tricky
Find
Finding
Examine
Know
How
Very
Going
May
Mean
Planets
Many
The Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed for extreme servicing, you know, we can fix everything. And the James Webb Space Telescope, where we can fix nothing. It has to work the first time. And it's a very complicated telescope.
John M. Grunsfeld
Work
Time
You
Complicated
Space
First
Nothing
Everything
Extreme
Telescope
Know
First Time
Hubble
Very
Fix
Where
James
Which
Designed
Servicing
When I grew up as a kid, we didn't know there were any other planets outside of our own solar system. It was widely speculated that planet formation was an incredibly rare event and that it's possible that other planets just don't exist in our galaxy, and it's just this special situation where we happen to have planets around our sun.
John M. Grunsfeld
Solar
Rare
Own
Situation
Other
Incredibly
Our
Solar System
Kid
Sun
System
Possible
Outside
Know
Around
Were
Exist
Up
Any
Just
Where
Grew
Happen
Formation
Galaxy
Planet
Planets
Special
Event
Widely
Because of Hubble and other telescopes, we've now discovered that there are probably planets around every star, or virtually every star. There are solar systems around most stars. And the fact that we're here on a planet, Earth, means that it's likely there's lots of other Earths out there.
John M. Grunsfeld
Solar
Stars
Every
Other
Virtually
Earth
Out
Systems
Fact
Most
Likely
Because
Around
Discovered
Hubble
Lots
Planet
Planet Earth
Planets
Means
Star
Now
Here
When I first went to Hubble, as an astronomer and as a scientist, it was a dream come true. And as an astronaut, the Hubble missions are premiere missions because Hubble is so important to science, so important to humanity, that it's just a very special event. But as an astronomer, it was sort of the holy grail of missions.
John M. Grunsfeld
Science
Humanity
First
Important
Astronaut
Astronomer
Dream
True
Come
Missions
Sort
Because
Scientist
Hubble
Very
Just
Grail
Holy
Holy Grail
Premiere
Special
Event
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