"It so happened that my goals kind of……" — John L. Phillips
"It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut."
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18 Quotes by John L. Phillips
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There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
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Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing…
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If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might…
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In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but…
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Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going…
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I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy…
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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
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We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many…
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A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new…
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After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot…
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Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have…
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I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your…
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