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We are not machines exploring the universe, we are people.

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Chris Hadfield
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: August 29
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Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent.
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The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.
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What's the next thing that's going to kill me? is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.
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Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.
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You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.
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Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.
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The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It's time we build a rocket and go to stay.
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Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.
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Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.
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It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.
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It's good to have a fear of heights. I mean, it's kind of crazy not to because if you just lean out a little bit and there's a gust of wind or somebody bumps you or something and you fall, you're splat.
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Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
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From space, the Bahamas is the most beautiful place on Earth.
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You can't just ignore spacewalking suit it partially defines the experience. So maybe the most difficult thing is becoming completely attuned to efficiently wearing a garment that is so inhibiting to motion, and making it look effortless, as if it's the most natural thing to be out there on a spacewalk.
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It’s not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.
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Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction
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If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.
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Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.
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When I stand on the edge of a cliff or right at the edge of a building or something, it's one of the few things that gives me kind of a deep, overwhelming, irrational fear where it affects my physiology.
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There is a sunrise or a sunset from space every 92 minutes so there is an incredible amount of beauty to see from up there.
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