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I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.

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If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

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You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.

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When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

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In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.

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Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

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I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.

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I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.

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In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

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You can't relive your life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Astronaut

Born: July 18th, 1921

Died: December 8th, 2016

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