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America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match. ”
CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program. ”
As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment. ”
Are governments the only entities that can build human spacecraft? No - actually, every human spacecraft ever built for NASA was built by private industry. ”
Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place. ”
Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's. ”
The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad. ”
So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not. ”
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. ”
We want to be the best place on the Internet. That's where the focus is at. ”