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" C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard. "
Heidi Hammel
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" Hubble orbits high, outside Earth's atmosphere so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks. "
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See
Outside
" Hubble made my career. "
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Career
Made
" There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard. "
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Science
Everything
Hard
" We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And we need to be clear that there's the human spaceflight part of NASA, and there's the science space part of NASA, and there's also aeronautics. Those are all very different things that NASA does. "
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Thoughtful
Money
Space
" I don't think I could advocate for increasing NASA's budget by a factor of two or ten, because I want us to have good roads in our country. I want us to have good education in our country. And NASA's budget is part of a discretionary budget, and we can't make that bigger without taking away other things. "
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Roads
Education
Good
" Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to take this thing and poke it and see how it reacts. In astronomy, we can't do that. The stars, the planets, the galaxies, are so far away that we just look at them, and we have to learn things by looking at them. "
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Learn
Look
Looking
" Weather forecast for Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia. "
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Chance
Belt
Cloudy
" The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars. "
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Telescope
Will
See
" Together, NASA and Hubble are opening new vistas on the universe. "
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Together
New
NASA
" Webb will return extremely interesting measurements of chemistry in the Martian atmosphere. And most importantly, these Mars data will be immediately available to the planetary community to enable them to plan even more detailed Mars observations with Webb in future cycles. "
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Future
Interesting
Community
" Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up. "
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Planets
Really
Great
" It's very clear that global climate change is occurring on earth, but it's also been very clear that that has always happened on earth. We've always had a changing climate on earth. We all know about ice ages. We know when our continent was covered with ice sheets. We know glaciers come and they go. It puzzles me that people forget that. "
Heidi Hammel
Forget
Earth
Me
" I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge. "
Heidi Hammel
Moment
Knowledge
Time
" Every observation that we make, every mission that we send to various places in the solar system is just taking us one step further to finding that truly habitable environment, a water-rich environment. "
Heidi Hammel
Mission
Environment
Finding
" You have to budget time for the inevitable problems that come up with children. You have to always be ahead of the game. If your proposal is due at NASA on Friday, it has to be finished on Wednesday because, on Thursday, it could be fevers and head lice. "
Heidi Hammel
Problems
Children
Friday
" It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it. "
Heidi Hammel
Space
Doing
Exploration
" Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground. "
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Unique
Absolutely
Ground
" By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet. "
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Presence
May
Activity
" What I want to look at with Webb is what we call ice giants in our solar system - the planets Neptune and Uranus. "
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Solar
Look
Want
" One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance. "
Heidi Hammel
Just
You
Think
" We really have only been observing Neptune with big telescopes since shortly before 1989. "
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Been
Only
Observing
" I'm happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today, yeah, I'd take a jet flight to the moon. "
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Simple
Today
Travel
" I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level push on it, is if some other country, perhaps China, were to actually have a landed flight to the moon and brought back our American flag and put it in Tiananmen Square. "
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Moon
American Flag
Think
" Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do. "
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Professional
You
Job
" When Hubble was launched, it became clear very shortly thereafter that there was a problem with the optics.The mirror was not quite the right shape. And the one program that I had really been looking forward to doing with Hubble was studying outer planets in our solar system, the planets Uranus and Neptune. "
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Looking Forward
Looking
Doing
" The Internet has made communication far more rapid. If there is a discovery, instantly around the world, anyone can confirm it. "
Heidi Hammel
More
World
Communication
" I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that. "
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Math
Kind
Science
" Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble. "
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Stars
Questions
Power
" When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, 'Eh. So what? Jupiter's huge. Comets are small. And so when I saw the first impact site and it was huge and dark, I was flabbergasted. "
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Reaction
Going
Small
" You make sure you broaden yourself and have a good solid background in many different things. That's what you need to be a good scientist. "
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You
Yourself
Need