Eileen Collins Quotes
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Houston, we have a good deploy. Chandra is ready to open the eyes of X-ray astronomy to the world.
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For those of us who have flown before , that was by far the smoothest ascent.
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I wish I could come back here whenever I wanted to have these views. And also the rest of the world had the opportunity to come up here, but it is time to end the mission.
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The people that I have worked with have just been superb, just the finest professionals, people who truly love the space program.
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Looks like I might have some cleaning up to do when I get home.
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For many of us it's been four years since we trained for this mission and its been a wonderful experience.
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It will be expensive, it will be risky and we will make mistakes as we go. But we will do it because we are explorers by nature.
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I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident.
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We have definitely accomplished all our mission objectives.
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He was pretty educated about what we do in a general sense.
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This situation, I believe, will certainly be safer for entry. I'm actually not that worried about it.
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We brought Discovery back in great shape. The crew was very anxious to walk around and see what the outside looks like and it looks fantastic.
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There are 2 million other parts on the space shuttle that are working perfectly right now.
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It's just been a wild ride. We've finally been able to put the icing on the cake with this mission.
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My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle.
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My dream, now, is that people will discover and invent new ways to fly higher, faster and farther and that someday humans will travel beyond our solar system.
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I leave the astronaut job with great memories but also great expectations for our country's future in space.
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Whether your commander is a man or woman doesn't really matter when it comes to getting your mission done.
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Getting the shuttle back up there is just going to bring the space station back to its full potential.
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The crew was anxious to see what the outside of the craft looked like and it looks fantastic.
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I have had a lot of thoughts about Columbia and I will have thoughts after the landing, We're all going to be very focused ... on the job at hand.
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She was praying for us -- everybody was praying for us. That's another reason I knew we were safe.
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I can honestly say that in my job day to day, I'm not really aware that there's any difference between male and female crew members. It may be cool to the rest of the world that a woman is the commander of this flight. I think that's great.
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I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.