Quotes by John L. Phillips - Page 1

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Astronaut
Becoming
Careers
Goal
Matched
Progression
Toward
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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Dad
War
Airplane
Flying
Inspiration
Wars
Served
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There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Birthday
Smile
Space
Astronaut
Astronauts
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It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Astronaut
Facts
Long
Long Time
Selected
Years
Time Me Long
Applied
In Fact
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We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Extras
Percent
Program
Spare Time
Time Work More
Carry
Devote
Extra
Work Time More
Scientific
Spare
Toward
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A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Avenues
Civilization
Endeavor
Expression
Inward
Looks
Keep Will New
Finding
Outward
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Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Expertise
Guy
Little Bit
Mars
Needs
Walking
Closer
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The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Space
Different
Space Shuttle
Two
Below
Directly
Shuttle
Windows
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After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Arms
Assembly
Crew
Orbit
Robots
Specialists
Vehicle
Complete
Complex
Larger
Robot
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I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Space
Behavior
Data
Density
Measuring
Thinking
Unique
Muscle
Your Body Important
Bone
Set
Figure
Lower
Preserve
Terms
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Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Gravity
Mars
Moon
Synthetic
Respond
Measure
Rates
Samples
Spin
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If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Exploration
Might
Risk
Territory
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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.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Different Ways
Maintenance
People
Ready
Research
Scientific Research
Support
Two
Time Day People
Board
Piece
Scientific
Shuttle
Two People
Visits
Working Day
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Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Space
Agency
Amount
Columbia
Load
Program
Progress
Space Program
Supplies
Vehicle
Since
Accident
Bringing
Carrying
Literally
Smaller
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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.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Academy
Astronaut
Careers
Decision
Desire
Math
Naval
Always Me Never
Always Decision Me
Pretty
Attended
Based
Career
Decision Always Me
Easily
Liked
Decision Me Always
Pilot
Solely
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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.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Space
Brave
Exploration
Mean
People
Ships
Space Exploration
Consider
Northwest
Passage
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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.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Jobs
Science
Space
Crew
Experiments
Fine
Guinea
Guinea Pigs
Members
Pigs
Crew Members
Farther
Focusing
Guinea Pig
Longer
Pig
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Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.
John L. Phillips / Astronaut
Compare
Conditions
Exercise
Impact
Legs
Researchers
Your Day Feel
Angles
Behind
Impacts
Measure
Trailing
Weightless
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