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.

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.

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.

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.

It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

I realized from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.

This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.