Duane G. Carey Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic.”

“There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.”

“Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”