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.
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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
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
Eventually we want to have six or seven people up there, and as soon as we get a third person up there we can multiply the amount of science up there.
John L. Phillips
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
There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
John L. Phillips
Ever since I've been an astronaut I knew I wanted to do a spacewalk, and it's really comforting to go out with a guy who's done it a lot of times.
John L. Phillips
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