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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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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Looks like I might have some cleaning up to do when I get home.
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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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For those of us who have flown before , that was by far the smoothest ascent.
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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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I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident.
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My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle.
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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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This situation, I believe, will certainly be safer for entry. I'm actually not that worried about it.
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Personally , I did not expect any large pieces of foam to fall off the external tank.
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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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He was pretty educated about what we do in a general sense.
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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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I believe the gap fillers are similar to what we had seen in previous flights.
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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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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.
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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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We are staying focused on the mission and we know we are in good hands with the people on the ground.
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This mission is a dream come true for all of us, not just to fly on the shuttle but to fly on this very important mission.
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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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The crew was anxious to see what the outside of the craft looked like and it looks fantastic.