There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.

We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.

I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home.

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.

All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

The whole world might not understand. I don't really care.

Impossible is just an opinion.