List of John L. Phillips Quotes

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John L. Phillips
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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.
Program Spare Time Extras
There weren't any astronauts until i was about 10. yuri gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
Birthday Space Astronaut
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.
Space Agency Progress
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.
Risk Might Territory
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.
Mean Space People
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.
Guy Needs Mars
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.
Math Careers Decision
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
Careers Goal Becoming
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. he was certainly quite an inspiration.
Dad War Inspiration
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.
Jobs Pigs Space
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.
Expression Civilization Inward
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.
Orbit Robots Arms
  • Born: April 15, 1951
  • Occupation: Astronaut
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