Umberto Guidoni Quotes

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• Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be…
• And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996…
• And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had…
• When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much…
• During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that…
• And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
• And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document…
• And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I…
• I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings.…
• At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle…
• For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that…
• I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.
• But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep…
• I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had…
• In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm,…
• And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking…
• And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer, I…
• And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
• Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone…

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