Leroy Chiao Quotes

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• As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.
• One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard…
• My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it…
• I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It…
• Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep…
• Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by…
• I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.
• There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in…
• I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and…
• Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.
• Space is very unforgiving business
• I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I…
• I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States…
• One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.
• I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and…
• Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of…
• The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.
• There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.
• But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how…
• I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and…

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