I Never Made A Career Decision Based

There Weren't Any Astronauts Until I Was About 10. Yuri Gagarin Went Into Space Right Around My 10th Birthday.

In The 19th Century People Were Looking For The Northwest Passage. Ships Were Lost And Brave People Were Killed, But That Doesn't Mean We Never Went Back To That Part Of The World Again, And I Consider It The Same In Space Exploration.

Even With Only Two People On Board, Where Maintenance Is A Large Piece Of Our Working Day, We Still Have Time To Do Scientific Research. We Have To Be Ready To Support Those Shuttle Visits In A Lot Of Different Ways.

I Never Made A Career Decision Based Solely On My Desire To Be An Astronaut. I Attended The Naval Academy Because I Wanted To Be A Navy Pilot. I Majored In Math Because Math Had Always Come Pretty Easily To Me And I Liked It.

We're Going To Be Focusing Our Science On Things That Will Take Us Farther And Longer Into Space. For Many Of Those Experiments, The Crew Members Are Human Guinea Pigs, Which Is Fine; That's Part Of My Job. I Don't Mind Being A Human Guinea Pig.