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• ‟ An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

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• ‟ The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.

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• ‟ I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

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• ‟ The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

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• ‟ In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

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• ‟ I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.

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• ‟ As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.

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• ‟ If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

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• ‟ I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

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• ‟ The time will come when we permit more people in space.

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• ‟ The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

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• ‟ We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

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• ‟ Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

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• ‟ We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

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