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Some people give specific reasons for wanting to travel into space such as wanting to experience the excitement of being ... even to visit other moons or planets. However, many people are also interested for spiritual reasons. These might be religious, but they also feel that the opportunity to view the Earth ...

Man is essentially an explorer interested in what lies just beyond the next hill or sea or even star. In my opinion, one of the benefits of the ISS and its long-term value to society is to lay the groundwork for us to expand the reaches of human civilization beyond Earth orbit to the Moon, Mars and other places in our solar system. In other words, we're not going just to visit; we'll live in ...

... big thing on the switches. People used to worry about switches and cleanliness, for that reason. But that wasn't the big problem. The big problem, people would drop drills, tools ... and have to go through electrified clouds. You might not have a choice… For this reason the orbiter was designed for lightning. Well, that started the big activity off on that ... no. No, I was very happy with my work in exploration there, and for some reason I never really wanted to be an astronaut, although those were incredibly wonderful people. So ...

... temperature extremes, that they didn't even consider, the scientists did know that . The reason, the whole reason the astronauts were quarantined for three weeks was because that was the period of ... going to spend—what's an Airstream trailer cost? Fifteen thousand. And there was another reason for Airstream trailers, before the flight crews went to the lunar missions, they had to ...

... quarantine business was just sort of mainly show. The trailer facility was, again, a pretty reasonable quarantine. It was on the ship. They walked through this little plastic tube from the ... the spacesuits, in particular. '''Catterson:''' Well, a very strong role, I think. The art was reasonably sophisticated before the space program began. The Navy had a pressure suit for very high ...

... distance from the vehicle so you could actually slow your approach speed down to a reasonable level so that you could come down and actually engage the docking cone and dock ... we changed things and manipulated them and changed hardware and so forth until we were reasonably satisfied we had something that was workable. Then we’d bring the crews in and ... interface with it and control it, whatever it was. That’s how you do a reasonable program. Not something typically like we did with LLRV/TV where everything was rush, rush ...

... to perceive enough and see enough and have sufficient information available, … that he could make reasonable choices about proper alternatives in how to control the craft in a manner that would ... humans could not survive in space, for a variety of reasons, both physical, physiological and mental and psychological, all kinds of reasons. So they didn't really know exactly what to test ...

... and they can't find a parking space, that's their problem. Laughter '''Butler:''' Sounds reasonable. '''Bostick:''' So I mean, I don't mean to belittle the importance of docking and ... of pride about being a member of the trench. '''Butler:''' Obviously for good reason. '''Bostick:''' Obviously for good reason, yes. Right. We talked earlier about competition and teamwork and all of that ...

... no. No, I was very happy with my work in exploration there, and for some reason I never really wanted to be an astronaut, although those were incredibly wonderful people. So ... . There’s a company out there, Grumman Corporation , in Long Island New York . For some reason, I had talked to my neighbor, who was the local Grumman director, and I said ... the more interesting aspects of things that you kind of fall into. One of the reasons that I decided to leave NASA was not because there were not challenges necessarily, but ...

... , all that is very left-brain activity, okay? That's one reason you need to be left-brained. The next reason is all your bosses are left-brained. So when you show ... know that much about their subject, that had more self-confidence in themselves for one reason or another, then they were able to contribute more. And some guys didn't know ... :''' What medium do you usually work with? '''Bean:''' I work with acrylics, for the simple reason that I felt acrylic was a more cutting-edge technology than oils. Even though I ...

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