24 Quotes by Duane Carey
- I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.
- I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.
- Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic.
- Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.
- Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.
- So, we have to get up and get pumped up for each day.
- Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.
- You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.
- So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.
- That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.
- And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.
- There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
- I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.
- And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.
- And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.
- And, I was really impressed with how beautiful our country was and how friendly the people were.
- And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.
- And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.
- And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.
- And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
- I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.
- Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.
- I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.
- And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.
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