Quotes by John M. Grunsfeld - Page 2

Our country... invests a tiny fraction of 1 percent in NASA, and this is what's so amazing to me, is with that small investment, we do so much for the country.
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Investment
Nasa
Percent
Tiny
Fraction
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I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe.
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Nasa
Discoveries
Enable
Mysteries
Quest
Unravel
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InSight will get to the 'core' of the nature of the interior and structure of Mars, well below the observations we've been able to make from orbit or the surface.
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Core
Insight
Mars
Orbit
Structure
Surface
Below
Interior
Observations
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The surface of Mars is bathed in ultraviolet light, bathed in radiation. Mars's magnetic field is essentially gone, so the surface of Mars is essentially sterilized.
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Magnetic
Mars
Radiation
Surface
Essentially
Field
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We don't know how many planets we're going to have to examine before we find life, and not finding it on 10 or 100 doesn't mean it's not there. This may be very tricky.
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Planets
Tricky
Examine
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There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.
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Science
Space
Hubble
Real
Stronger
Universe
Come
Case
Discoveries
Mysteries
Telescope
Than
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We're being very careful that we don't send a spacecraft to Mars with the intention of detecting Martian life - and find out that we detected the Earth life that we took with us.
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Careful
Intention
Mars
Spacecraft
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Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question... because of the investments we're making in space technology.
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Cusp
Planet Earth
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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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Adventure
Airplane
Purpose
Buy
Particularly
Jump
Parachute
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A lot of people get home from work and sink into a good chair, the place in their life where they feel most comfortable. I get that comfort in space, the place where I most feel like I belong.
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Comfort
Life Work Good
Life Work Space
Belong
Chair
Sink
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One of the things that happens in space is that there is a fluid shift. You get a lot of extra pressure, and it fills your sinuses, and the horseradish is a miracle worker for cleaning that out.
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Cleaning
Fluid
Worker
Extra
Fills
Shift
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The Hubble Space Telescope is more than remarkable. It has answered just so many of those fundamental questions that people have been asking about the cosmos since people were able to ask questions.
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Space
Cosmos
Hubble
Remarkable
Ask
Answered
Space People More
Fundamental
Fundamental Questions
Telescope
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I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.
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Activity
Compelling
Exploration
Fascinating
Important Things
Space Exploration
Broad
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As soon as I could ride a bike... I was always riding over to the Museum of Science and Industry to explore. It's where I first began to develop a fascination with machines and scientific principles.
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Bike
Fascination
Machines
Principles
Riding
Began
Develop
Explore
Museum
Ride
Scientific
Soon
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The team at the Space Telescope Science Institute has a demonstrated record of meeting the high-performance challenges of operating the Hubble Space Telescope and preparing for the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Space
Hubble
Institute
Preparing
Team
Record
James
Meeting
Operating
Telescope
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The '60s were a remarkable time because several things were happening at once. Men were leaving planet Earth, kids were breaking into the television age, and I was able to see Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
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Armstrong
Leaving
Moon
Planet Earth
Remarkable
Walking
Breaking
Happening
Neil
Planet
Several
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I believe that the future of humans, and the future of Earth, depends on space exploration. That's not a French problem, or a problem for Alabama: it's a planet-wide problem. International cooperation is crucial.
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Future
Space
Alabama
Cooperation
Crucial
Depends
Earth
Exploration
Humans
International
International Cooperation
Problem
Space Exploration
Future Believe I Believe
Space Believe I Believe
French
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At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.
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Age
Chance
Science
Astronaut
Fine
Mother
Six
Wanted
Actually
Besides
No Chance
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The Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed for extreme servicing, you know, we can fix everything. And the James Webb Space Telescope, where we can fix nothing. It has to work the first time. And it's a very complicated telescope.
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Space
Complicated
First Time
Hubble
Time Work Space
Time Work Nothing
Extreme
Fix
Designed
Work Space Time
James
Servicing
Telescope
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Our journey in going beyond our home planet is a human endeavor, and in the greatest tradition of exploration, past, present, and future spacefarers will continue to be enduring catalysts for inspiration in our quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe.
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Journey
Future
Home
Endeavor
Exploration
Inspiration
Tradition
Universe
Greatest
Beyond
Future Home Past
Continue
Human
Present
Mysteries
Planet
Quest
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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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Calming
Focused
Meditation
Practice
Scared
Visualization
Activities
Effect
Guide
Prior
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Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind.
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Space
Humankind
Increase
Peaceful
Planet Earth
Purpose
Repairing
Seven
Understanding
Universe
Enrich
Minds
Planet
Telescope
Whose
Workings
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Growing up in Highland Park, in high school, I had some very influential teachers: I had a math teacher who taught calculus that helped me learn to be in love with mathematics; I had a chemistry teacher who inspired us to work what was in the class and to go beyond.
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Teacher
Calculus
Chemistry
Class
Growing Up
High School
Influential
Math
Taught
Love Work Me
Teachers
Beyond
Helped
Park
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There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally.
John M. Grunsfeld /
Science
Astronaut
Engineering
Nasa
Pants
Perspective
Spending
Life My Life Perspective
Activities
Life Science My Life
Seat
Depended
Gained
Learned
Literally
My Life
Systems
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Because of Hubble and other telescopes, we've now discovered that there are probably planets around every star, or virtually every star. There are solar systems around most stars. And the fact that we're here on a planet, Earth, means that it's likely there's lots of other Earths out there.
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Hubble
Planet Earth
Solar
Systems
Virtually
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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. So we're gonna see the snapshot of when stars started. When galaxies started. The very first moments of the universe. And my bet? There's gonna be some big surprises.
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Space
Moments
Stars
Universe
Bet
Surprises
Designed
Formed
Galaxies
Gonna
James
Snapshot
Specifically
Telescope
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When I grew up on the south side of Chicago, it was kind of a rough neighborhood, and when my parents saw the prospect of my older sister going to middle school, high school, they decided that we would move to the north side of Chicago, Highland Park, and for me, that was a whole new ballgame.
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Ballgame
Middle School
Neighborhood
Older Sister
Rough
Me Parents New
Park
Prospect
South Side
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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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Apollo
Astronaut
Backdrop
Chicago
Events
Great Things
Inspired
Mercury
South
Time Great Me
Achieved
Aspired
Less
Side
Nation
Course
Gemini
South Side
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The most striking thing to me about human space flight and my own personal experience is that I've seen dramatic changes on Earth. We humans are rapidly changing the planet. I've watched Amazonia as the rainforest has been cut down. That's something I've seen out the window. I'm very worried about that.
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Dramatic
Flight
Window
Worried
Personal Experience
Rapidly
Striking
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Here on Earth, we're exposed to asteroids hitting the Earth, eventual changes in the Sun, changes in the Earth's climate, things we're doing to the Earth's climate. If we want to survive, we need to become a multi-planet species. That's further down the road, but the first wave is going to be the explorers.
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Climate
Down The Road
Explorers
Exposed
Hitting
Species
Sun
Wave
Eventual
Further
Survive
To Survive
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When I first went to Hubble, as an astronomer and as a scientist, it was a dream come true. And as an astronaut, the Hubble missions are premiere missions because Hubble is so important to science, so important to humanity, that it's just a very special event. But as an astronomer, it was sort of the holy grail of missions.
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Astronaut
Holy
Holy Grail
Hubble
Humanity
Missions
Scientist
Special
Event
Grail
Premiere
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All indications are that three and a half billion years ago, Mars looked like Earth. It had lakes. It had rivers. It had river deltas. It had snow-capped peaks and puffy clouds and blue sky. Three and a half billion years ago, it was a happening place. The same time on Earth, that's when life started. So did life start on Mars?
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Blue
Blue Sky
Clouds
Earth
Half
Lakes
Mars
Sky
Three
Years
Years Ago
Life Time Sky
Did
Billion
Same
Happening
Looked
Place
Peaks
Puffy
River
Same Time
Start
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When I grew up as a kid, we didn't know there were any other planets outside of our own solar system. It was widely speculated that planet formation was an incredibly rare event and that it's possible that other planets just don't exist in our galaxy, and it's just this special situation where we happen to have planets around our sun.
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Formation
Galaxy
Planets
Situation
Solar System
Sun
Rare
Exist
Event
Incredibly
Planet
Solar
Widely
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