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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. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Space
Pretty
Me
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" Hubble uniquely has been able to look in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a nearby star and figure out what's in that atmosphere. "
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" Hubble has really opened our eyes to what the universe is made of, its structure, and has helped us learn how little we know about the universe. "
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" I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life. "
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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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" The surface of Mars is bathed in ultraviolet light, bathed in radiation. Mars's magnetic field is essentially gone, so the surface of Mars is essentially sterilized. "
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" Getting a team of scientists on Mars could be transformative. "
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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 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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" 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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" As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age. "
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" I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe. "
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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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" We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place. "
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" Our journey in going beyond our home planet is a human endeavor, and in the greatest tradition of exploration, past, present, and future spacefarers will continue to be enduring catalysts for inspiration in our quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe. "
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Home
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" The '60s were a remarkable time because several things were happening at once. Men were leaving planet Earth, kids were breaking into the television age, and I was able to see Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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Food
" 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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" 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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" Going to Mars would make NASA great again. "
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" There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally. "
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" Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space. "
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" The moon's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. "
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" I'm an incurable romantic. But I'm not an adrenaline junkie. "
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" The best would be to fly in space with family and friends. "
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" I kind of feel like I found my cause in life servicing the Hubble Space Telescope. "
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" At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut. "
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Age
" Once we get beyond Mars, which formed from the same stuff as Earth, the likelihood that life is similar to what we find on this planet is very low. "
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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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