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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. "

John M. Grunsfeld

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" To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile. "

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" I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration. "

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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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" Life outside of Earth is probably going to be really hard to find. "

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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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" I was not really scared on my spacewalks. We practice so much and need to stay so focused that it has a calming effect on me. I do a kind of visualization and meditation in the airlock prior to going outside, to guide my first activities once I get out in space. "

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" There are some things worthy of risking your life for. "

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" The most striking thing to me about human space flight and my own personal experience is that I've seen dramatic changes on Earth. We humans are rapidly changing the planet. I've watched Amazonia as the rainforest has been cut down. That's something I've seen out the window. I'm very worried about that. "

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" Here on Earth, we're exposed to asteroids hitting the Earth, eventual changes in the Sun, changes in the Earth's climate, things we're doing to the Earth's climate. If we want to survive, we need to become a multi-planet species. That's further down the road, but the first wave is going to be the explorers. "

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" The Hubble Space Telescope is more than remarkable. It has answered just so many of those fundamental questions that people have been asking about the cosmos since people were able to ask questions. "

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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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" The only reason Hubble works is because we have a space shuttle. "

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" The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe. So we're gonna see the snapshot of when stars started. When galaxies started. The very first moments of the universe. And my bet? There's gonna be some big surprises. "

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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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" Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born. "

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" When people left on the Oregon Trail from St. Louis, they knew that only a fraction of them would make it to the West Coast. But they went anyway. "

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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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" Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe. "

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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 Martian atmosphere is very thin. It's like our atmosphere at 100,000 feet. "

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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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" 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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" Going to Mars would make NASA great again. "

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" I got lucky and got assigned to Hubble. "

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" The best would be to fly in space with family and friends. "

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" The team at the Space Telescope Science Institute has a demonstrated record of meeting the high-performance challenges of operating the Hubble Space Telescope and preparing for the James Webb Space Telescope. "

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" Only by studying large numbers of people can we figure out, are astronauts dying at a higher rate of cancer, and what types of cancers, than other people? "

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