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" Asteroid detection, tracking, and defense of our planet is something that NASA, its interagency partners, and the global community take very seriously. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Defense
Seriously
NASA
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" The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is. "
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" One of the things that happens in space is that there is a fluid shift. You get a lot of extra pressure, and it fills your sinuses, and the horseradish is a miracle worker for cleaning that out. "
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" The moon's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. "
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" 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. "
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" I got lucky and got assigned to Hubble. "
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" The first thing to know about space food - it is the ambiance; it is the environment. It is not the food. "
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" 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. "
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" Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception. "
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" What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things. "
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" Getting a team of scientists on Mars could be transformative. "
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" Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space. "
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" 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. "
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" The Martian atmosphere is very thin. It's like our atmosphere at 100,000 feet. "
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" I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that inspired me to be an astronaut, and, of course, the backdrop is nothing less than Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. That was a time in our nation where we aspired to great things, and we achieved them. "
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" There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe. "
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" Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life. "
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" I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA. "
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" All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to risk my life for the mission. "
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" A lot of people get home from work and sink into a good chair, the place in their life where they feel most comfortable. I get that comfort in space, the place where I most feel like I belong. "
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" Growing up in Highland Park, in high school, I had some very influential teachers: I had a math teacher who taught calculus that helped me learn to be in love with mathematics; I had a chemistry teacher who inspired us to work what was in the class and to go beyond. "
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" A deep ocean under the icy crust of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth. "
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" The biggest honor is to be an astronaut. It's such a tremendous privilege to be able to represent humankind in our quest to explore space. "
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" As soon as I could ride a bike... I was always riding over to the Museum of Science and Industry to explore. It's where I first began to develop a fascination with machines and scientific principles. "
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" The best would be to fly in space with family and friends. "
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" When I grew up on the south side of Chicago, it was kind of a rough neighborhood, and when my parents saw the prospect of my older sister going to middle school, high school, they decided that we would move to the north side of Chicago, Highland Park, and for me, that was a whole new ballgame. "
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" There are some things worthy of risking your life for. "
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" Our country... invests a tiny fraction of 1 percent in NASA, and this is what's so amazing to me, is with that small investment, we do so much for the country. "
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" 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. "
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