51 Quotes by Duane G. Carey

I think a lot of people, myself included, like to be... like to do expeditions and trips. To me, this feels a little bit like a motorcycle trip.

Well, let me tell you: when I'm in space, I'm looking forward to looking back and seeing the Earth. I just can't imagine what it looks like.

And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.

Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.

I've always been, since I was fairly young, I've been interested in motorcycles and have owned them and ridden them and raced them, things like that.

It's all done by computer. The jets will fire and it'll just be in the attitude that we need to have it in to come back to Earth.

It's very important, especially during a Hubble mission, that we have a lot of photographic evidence of the condition of the telescope.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.