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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? "

John M. Grunsfeld

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

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

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" I got lucky and got assigned to Hubble. "

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" The strangest thing I've found is that when I got to space, I felt more comfortable in space that I've ever been on Earth before. I just felt this is my home. "

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" Once in a while, the universe lets you be free alone and in peace. "

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" 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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" I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the Hubble Space Telescope. "

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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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" I'm an incurable romantic. But I'm not an adrenaline junkie. "

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" The moon's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. "

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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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" When I first went to Hubble, as an astronomer and as a scientist, it was a dream come true. And as an astronaut, the Hubble missions are premiere missions because Hubble is so important to science, so important to humanity, that it's just a very special event. But as an astronomer, it was sort of the holy grail of missions. "

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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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" Going to Mars would make NASA great again. "

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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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" 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 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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" I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life. "

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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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" I believe that the future of humans, and the future of Earth, depends on space exploration. That's not a French problem, or a problem for Alabama: it's a planet-wide problem. International cooperation is crucial. "

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" I thrive with high-performance challenges in front of me. "

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

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

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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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" Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life. "

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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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" All indications are that three and a half billion years ago, Mars looked like Earth. It had lakes. It had rivers. It had river deltas. It had snow-capped peaks and puffy clouds and blue sky. Three and a half billion years ago, it was a happening place. The same time on Earth, that's when life started. So did life start on Mars? "

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" We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place. "

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