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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
- Prepare
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
- Flight
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- Nov 07, 2020
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
- Nov 07, 2020
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
- Nov 07, 2020
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
On both of my flights, everything went very well.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
- Floating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
- Beds
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- Nov 07, 2020