American - Astronaut | February 21, 1964 -
We would go in there with our parents once in a while for - actually go into Manhattan for dinner, weekends occasionally to a museum, but most of my memories of traveling into Manhattan was with the school trips and then later on as we got, you know, into high school, kind of on our own and with friends.
Scott Kelly
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Me, personally, I was a Mets and Giants fan.
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My dad worked nights mostly and while we were growing up, and my mother also worked, so there were times where, when it was just the two of us at home, and, you know, they gave us a pretty long leash, actually.
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Flying in space is a privilege, whether it's the first time or the fourth time.
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A lot of the data we collect is stuff that has to be analyzed on the ground. For instance, we can't see, you know, bone loss. Our cells, you know, that's something that we'll have to notice with imaging technology when I get back.
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We have a lot of systems here on board the space station, and we can't call a repair man when one of them breaks.
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What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it's as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that's in the military with some kind of technical background.
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I personally think going to Mars, if it takes two years or two and a half years, that's doable. Certainly, the first people who go there, that's going to be a big motivator, being first getting to Mars.
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We're fortunate to have football on the space station.
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What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy.
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I'm actually thinking about maybe, on a spacewalk, not wearing my glasses. I normally wear those both for reading and a little bit of a distance correction, but the distance vision seems like it's gotten a little bit better. So I might go without.
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Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.
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