I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
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You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.
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It's been a long way, but we're here.
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