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Leroy Chiao
American
Astronaut
Born:
Aug 28
,
1960
Life
Me
Space
Think
Time
You
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An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground.
Leroy Chiao
Eclipse
More
Impressive
Ground
Actually
Phenomenon
I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast distances.
Leroy Chiao
Life
Think
Other
Distances
Out
Kinds
Vast
Because
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Reason
Each
Including
Found
One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.
Leroy Chiao
Great
Challenges
Try
Naked
Eye
Photograph
Photos
Some
Take
Naked Eye
Discern
Great Wall
Wall
Did
China
Hard
Actually
As astronauts know better than anyone else, risks, incidents, and mishaps are inevitable in the development of any high-performance vehicle. The emergence of supersonic flight during the 1940s and of the Century Series of fighters in the 1950s came with the loss of several test pilots. Still, it was a glorious time.
Leroy Chiao
Time
Risks
Better
Glorious
Inevitable
Else
Several
Astronauts
Emergence
Vehicle
Development
Know
Still
Test
Came
Pilots
Loss
Than
Any
Anyone
Anyone Else
Century
Fighters
Flight
Incidents
Series
I remember taking a space walk on the ISS. There I was, wrench in hand, tightening bolts on a new module. It was such a mundane task. But when I looked in one direction, there was Earth floating in vivid blues and greens. In the other direction, I could see the blackest black conceivable, punctured by unwavering pinpoints of starshine.
Leroy Chiao
Remember
Walk
Space
Black
Other
Earth
See
Vivid
Blackest
Wrench
Direction
Could
Taking
New
Looked
Unwavering
Hand
Task
Greens
Blues
Floating
Bolts
Mundane
Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.
Leroy Chiao
Work
Great
You
Hurt
Experience
Down
Great Experience
Parachute
Systems
Able
Hurting
Pretty
Both
Well
Coming
Very
Hit
Quite
Different
Hard
Ground
Even
Keep
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
Time
Meal
Meet
Spent
Out
Would
Stay
Russian
Segment
My Time
He
Well
His
Lot
Up
Very
Times
American
Worked
Working
Actually
Things
I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
Leroy Chiao
Space
Nation
Own
States
Astronauts
Launch
See
Following
Russia
Course
Becoming
Very
China
Interesting
United
United States
Actually
Third
One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.
Leroy Chiao
Buy
Day
People
Space
Will
One Day
Visit
Able
Tickets
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.
Leroy Chiao
Good
Construction
State
Our
Station
Maintenance
Major
Return
Doing
Task
Flights
Keep
Shuttle
Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.
Leroy Chiao
Passion
Space
Will
Whatever
Bit
See
Uncertain
Consulting
Involve
Well
Sure
How
Still
Contribute
Where
Space Program
Program
I was eight years old when I saw the Apollo moon landing in 1969. I was riveted.
Leroy Chiao
Old
Moon
Saw
Years
Eight
Landing
Apollo
I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.
Leroy Chiao
Degree
Engineering
Undergraduate
Chemical
Got
Donald Trump's administration is floating a proposal to return to the moon - and to shut down the International Space Station to help pay for it. The first part of this idea is good. The second is horrible.
Leroy Chiao
Good
Space
Moon
First
Pay
Down
Station
Administration
Horrible
Proposal
Part
Idea
Return
Trump
Donald
Space Station
To The Moon
Help
International
Floating
International Space Station
Shut
Second
The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.
Leroy Chiao
Space
National
Gave
Complete
States
Up
Forever
Ended
Space Shuttle
After
United
United States
Treasure
Shuttle
Program
I'm skeptical of claims that we've been visited by aliens from another planet or other dimension, but I don't rule it out 100 percent. I have an open mind, and I do believe there's other life in the universe.
Leroy Chiao
Life
Mind
Alien
Believe
Universe
Other
Rule
Dimension
Claims
Visited
Out
Percent
Open
Open Mind
Another
Been
Skeptical
Planet
If there is life out there that's so much more advanced than we are, and they know either how to travel great distances in short amounts of time, or they're able to come from a parallel universe into ours, why don't they just come and show themselves?
Leroy Chiao
Life
Time
Great
Travel
Universe
Distances
Ours
Out
Parallel
Able
More
Advanced
Come
Know
How
Than
Short
Just
Either
Themselves
Much
Show
Why
Amount
In order to do anything worthwhile, one must take calculated risks.
Leroy Chiao
Risks
Worthwhile
Must
Take
Calculated
Order
Anything
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