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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
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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
Work Learning Training Everything Station Systems About Had Became Real Been Years Very Five Them Really Hard Here Started Shuttle
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
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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
We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts. Robert Crippen
Love Before Flying Those Would Winged Had Vehicle Test Pilots Were Truly Than Done Different Ever
When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true. Robert Crippen
Work Time You Impossible Long Long Time Believe Something True Almost Coming Really Hard
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half. Robert Crippen
You World Half Every Once Hour Hour And A Half Around Very Going Orbit Fast
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
Education Time Family Me Science Pilot Higher Education Military Once Spent General Join Joined Point Higher Studied Academy Years Graduated Decided Which Two
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
Family You Science Humanity World Understanding Our Evolution Ourselves Only Through Development Also Around Understand Contribute Etc Us Communities Basic
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
Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very first time. Facing those challenges of radiation, navigation and life support on a months-long trip millions of miles from home would be a perfect learning journey before a Mars trip. Rusty Schweickart
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It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up into orbit, against Earth's gravity. Rusty Schweickart
Day Water Space Think Digging Our Earth Our Planet One Day Able Instead Access Materials Up May Orbit Against Fuel Fantastic Then Planet Even Deeper Gravity Dragging Need
By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part. Rusty Schweickart
Life People Dangerous Amazing Responsibility Experiment Preserving Asteroid Our Strikes Earth Evolutionary Entire Preventing Take Part Human Human Beings Which Beings Even Species Millions Millions Of People Save
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