"There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday."

Risk, Birthday, Right, Space

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"There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday."

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"We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work."

Time, Work

"We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig."

Science, Being, Job, Mind

"The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle."

Space, Will, Windows

"If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory."

Business, Exploration, Risk

"In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration."

People, Exploration, Ships, Space

"It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected."

Time, Fact, Years

"I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density."

Behavior, Body, Space, Trying

"After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't."

Now, Right

"It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut."

Goal, Goals, Career

"A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression."

Civilization, Expression, Will

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