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- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.
- Stay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
- Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say getting my bachelor's was the single hardest thing I've done in my life. Once I got to university, I was working harder than I ever had before and, for the first time in my life, I was getting bad grades. It was demoralising.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at NASA, I had a house on a small private airstrip that we shared between the flying community. I had a hangar in my backyard with my airplane in it so I could just fly from my home.
- Farther
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest technical challenge to sending astronauts on farther and longer missions is biomedical: How do we keep them healthy?
- Graduate Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a graduate student in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan called for the construction of a new space station. I knew then that I wanted to apply for the astronaut program, and this was an exciting development.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump's administration is floating a proposal to return to the moon - and to shut down the International Space Station to help pay for it. The first part of this idea is good. The second is horrible.
- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the 1960s, I can't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated by airplanes and rockets.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember looking at the moon as an 8-year-old and marveling that there were two astronauts in a lander on the surface, getting ready to go out and actually walk. That settled it for me: I knew I was going to at least try to become an astronaut. I wanted to be like those guys.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After earning my university degrees and working for a few years, I wrote to NASA to request an application package. Seven months later, after I applied, I received a call inviting me to Houston to interview. That itself was thrilling; it meant that I was one of the 100 or so who would be interviewed, chosen from several thousand applicants.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm skeptical of claims that we've been visited by aliens from another planet or other dimension, but I don't rule it out 100 percent. I have an open mind, and I do believe there's other life in the universe.
- Distances
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is life out there that's so much more advanced than we are, and they know either how to travel great distances in short amounts of time, or they're able to come from a parallel universe into ours, why don't they just come and show themselves?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As astronauts know better than anyone else, risks, incidents, and mishaps are inevitable in the development of any high-performance vehicle. The emergence of supersonic flight during the 1940s and of the Century Series of fighters in the 1950s came with the loss of several test pilots. Still, it was a glorious time.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did I think about the risks? Of course I did. Anyone who says otherwise is not being completely honest. The amount of energy it takes to bring a spacecraft to orbital speed, and the forces it endures on re-entry, makes risk impossible to avoid.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember taking a space walk on the ISS. There I was, wrench in hand, tightening bolts on a new module. It was such a mundane task. But when I looked in one direction, there was Earth floating in vivid blues and greens. In the other direction, I could see the blackest black conceivable, punctured by unwavering pinpoints of starshine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You might have heard about a transformation that can occur when someone first sees Earth from space - how it becomes harder to think about 'my country' or 'my people' and harder not to think about 'our planet.' I can tell you, that transformation is real.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're very well trained for the spacewalk, so when you go outside, it's not like the movies.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast distances.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020