John L. Phillips Quotes

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• There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
• Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we…
• 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…
• 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…
• Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there.…
• 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…
• It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
• My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and…
• Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and…
• Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon,…
• The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at…
• We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time…
• 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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