"We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars."

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Source : "Exploring Space, Unearthing Human Emotions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 13, 2011.

Ellen Ochoa

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“She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.”
“Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.”
“Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.”
“I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.”
“Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.”
“The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months.”
“In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.”

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