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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.

My Dad Served In Two Wars Has Been Flying Airplanes For 60 Years Now. He Was Certainly Quite An Inspiration.

It Took Me A Long Time To Get Selected As An Astronaut. In Fact, I Applied For 20 Years Before I Was Selected.

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.

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.