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Leroy Chiao Quotes

American - Astronaut | August 28, 1960 -

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

Great Challenges Eye Wall Try Naked

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

Food Challenges Way Along Different

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.

Work Together You Flight Done Kind

Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

Work Great Experience Hurt You Down

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.

Step Waiting Help Long Mission Done

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

Hope Space Exploration I Can Will

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

Fly Flying Thought Loved Would Much

I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.

Time American Meet Out Meal Up

I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.

Good Leader Competition Think Now

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

Science Space Doing Important Say

I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

Space Interesting Nation See China

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

Walk Space Energy You Meet Course

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