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" Your arms don't hang by your side in space like they do on Earth because there is no gravity. It feels awkward to have them floating in front of me. "
Scott Kelly
Gravity
Space
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" I personally think going to Mars, if it takes two years or two and a half years, that's doable. Certainly, the first people who go there, that's going to be a big motivator, being first getting to Mars. "
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" The earth is a beautiful planet. "
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" I think a good life-work balance is important, and that's even more important in some cases on the space station. "
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" What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy. "
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" We have a lot of systems here on board the space station, and we can't call a repair man when one of them breaks. "
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" The majority of astronauts have to change their eyeglasses while in space. They bring eyeglasses with them and typically change a few months into the mission. "
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" As far as whether there is life there on Mars or whether there was actually ever life there, I don't know. It would be great to find out, though. "
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" It's an international space station. We have crew members from both the U.S. and Russia and now the United Kingdom with Tim Peake from the U.K... It's great to see that, on this space station, that we can work across cultures in a very cooperative way. "
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" My career with the Navy and NASA gave me an incredible chance to showcase public service to which I am dedicated, and what we can accomplish on the big challenges of our day. "
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" We've got to get rid of the stuff on the space station somehow. So we do have a pretty significant capability to bring back stuff on SpaceX that you might not imagine. "
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" People do really well on space missions, but it's the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It's those things that we need to figure out. "
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" The space station here is a magical place and an incredible science facility. "
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" When you look at the... atmosphere on the limb of the Earth, I wouldn't say it looks unhealthy, but it definitely looks very, very fragile and just kind of like this thin film, so it looks like something that we definitely need to take care of. "
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" Me, personally, I was a Mets and Giants fan. "
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Me
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" I think what most people miss, and what I missed last time, are the people that are important in your life. You know, the relationships you have with people on the ground. "
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You
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Know
" The Earth is a beautiful planet. The space station is a great vantage point to observe it and share our planet in pictures. It makes you more of an environmentalist. "
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Space
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" I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders. "
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Travel
" I've flown in space four times now, so it's going to be hard in that respect, but I certainly look forward to going back to Earth. I've been up here for a really long time and sometimes, when I think about it, I feel like I've lived my whole life up here. "
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" I believe in exploration, and I will miss being on the front lines of that endeavor. On one hand, I look forward to going home, but it's something that's been a big part of my life, and I'm going to miss it. "
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" Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation. "
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" I believe in the importance of flying in space and the research that we do. "
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" There's a lot of work to do - not only the science but maintaining the facilities up here. When you go down from a crew of six to a crew of three, obviously you've lost half of your crew time available, so it does have an impact. But it's an impact we plan for. "
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" If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation. "
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" My dad worked nights mostly and while we were growing up, and my mother also worked, so there were times where, when it was just the two of us at home, and, you know, they gave us a pretty long leash, actually. "
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" It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death. "
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" I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that. "
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" I don't mean to say it's not fresh on the space station, but there's nothing like new, cold air coming into the capsule. "
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" I would always consider flying in space again, without a question. "
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" It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to. "
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" It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do. "
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