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" Sometimes astronauts feel a little ill or get minor scrapes. I trained as a crew medical officer to do basic treatment. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Astronauts
Medical
Feel
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" To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile. "
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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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" Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life. "
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" I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet. "
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" I got lucky and got assigned to Hubble. "
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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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Men
" 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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" 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. "
John M. Grunsfeld
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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. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Humanity
Science
Dream
" The Martian atmosphere is very thin. It's like our atmosphere at 100,000 feet. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Atmosphere
Our
Feet
" Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Space
Earth
Exploring
" 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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Doing
Sun
Need
" I don't particularly want to jump out of an airplane with a parachute if I don't have to. I don't want to go bungee jumping. I like adventure with a real purpose that I can buy into. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Purpose
Adventure
Jump
" Getting a team of scientists on Mars could be transformative. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Transformative
Mars
Team
" 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. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Radiation
Gone
Light
" Regardless of what dreams you have, work very hard, play very hard, and have fun. "
John M. Grunsfeld
You
Dreams
Fun
" We don't know how many planets we're going to have to examine before we find life, and not finding it on 10 or 100 doesn't mean it's not there. This may be very tricky. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Find
Finding
Going
" What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Try
People
Earth
" I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the Hubble Space Telescope. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Suit
Outside
Next
" Going to Mars would make NASA great again. "
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Mars
Great
Going
" I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life. "
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" Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Peaceful
Think
Space
" I thrive with high-performance challenges in front of me. "
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Front
Challenges
Thrive
" 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. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Ride
Bike
Museum
" 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. "
John M. Grunsfeld
Chicago
Me
Nothing
" I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration. "
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Space
Time
Life
" 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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Science Fiction
Engineers
Science
" 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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Moments
Universe
Stars
" Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question... because of the investments we're making in space technology. "
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Alone
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" After my spacewalks, I am quite exhilarated but also tired, similar to a workout on Planet Earth. "
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