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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.

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Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways.

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

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I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

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

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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Astronaut

Born: April 15th, 1951

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