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We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks. Philippe Perrin

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This mission was the project of a decade's work. Philippe Perrin

Work Project Mission Decade

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation. Philippe Perrin

You Preparation Only Physically Train Psychological Cannot Thing Last

So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time. Philippe Perrin

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience. Philippe Perrin

Experience Fly Somebody Think Quite Much Unique

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone. Philippe Perrin

War Pilot Gulf Gulf War Involved Been Then Zone

I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever. Philippe Perrin

Life You Science Whatever Think Astronaut Inside Something Got Doing Want Movie Whether Movie Star Your Deep Deep Inside Star

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them. Philippe Perrin

Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk about space and tell me a few things about how things would really happen. Philippe Perrin

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian. Philippe Perrin

Space Everything Rapidly Able Russian Knew Nobody Because Go Privilege American Quite Stopped Being Either Europe

I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle. Robert Crippen

Complicated Thought Once Several Pretty More Take Vehicle Since Lot Times Did Going Scrub Pad Figured Actually

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery. Robert Crippen

Somewhat Mystery Selection Always Been

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit. Robert Crippen

Beautiful Time Looking Enjoy Other Spend Earth Pleasure Out Some Having Weightless Real Real Pleasure Being Inhabit Lucky Chance

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space. Robert Crippen

People Space Other Unlike Hundred Several Carried Has-Been Vehicle Built Been Any Space Shuttle Capabilities Fantastic Ever Thing Shuttle

After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first stage of military training; it instills discipline and various qualities required for military life. Roman Romanenko

Life Training School Discipline College First Stage Military Enrolled Various Cadet Qualities Graduated After Required Military Training

Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration. Roman Romanenko

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I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes. Roman Romanenko

Pilot Military Airplane Liked Because Modeling Did Want Wanted Interested

My family didn't have time for me, so I decided to join the Suvorov military academy, which is in St. Petersburg. I spent two years there and studied general military science. At that point, once I graduated, I joined the Chernigov higher education pilot academy. Roman Romanenko

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew. Rusty Schweickart

Crew Earth Passengers Spaceship

All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc. Rusty Schweickart

Today Value Weather Resources Know Etc Us Communications Satellites

There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts. Rusty Schweickart

Asteroid Impacts About Global Policy Accepted

It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute to ourselves, our family, to our communities, etc. - you also contribute to the basic development and evolution of humanity. Rusty Schweickart

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies. Rusty Schweickart

Today Government World Protection Responsibility Any Explicitly Agencies Planetary Assigned

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