American - Astronaut | October 10, 1958 -
There are some things worthy of risking your life for.
John M. Grunsfeld
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The best would be to fly in space with family and friends.
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Sometimes astronauts feel a little ill or get minor scrapes. I trained as a crew medical officer to do basic treatment.
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After my spacewalks, I am quite exhilarated but also tired, similar to a workout on Planet Earth.
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I was not really scared on my spacewalks. We practice so much and need to stay so focused that it has a calming effect on me. I do a kind of visualization and meditation in the airlock prior to going outside, to guide my first activities once I get out in space.
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The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.
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We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.
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I'm an incurable romantic. But I'm not an adrenaline junkie.
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I don't particularly want to jump out of an airplane with a parachute if I don't have to. I don't want to go bungee jumping. I like adventure with a real purpose that I can buy into.
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To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile.
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Once we get beyond Mars, which formed from the same stuff as Earth, the likelihood that life is similar to what we find on this planet is very low.
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I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that inspired me to be an astronaut, and, of course, the backdrop is nothing less than Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. That was a time in our nation where we aspired to great things, and we achieved them.
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