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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 18 quotes by John L. Phillips John Lynch Phillips NASA Astronaut Nationality American Born (1951-04-15) April 15, 1951 (age 63) Fort Belvoir, Virginia Other occupation Scientist Rank Captain, USNR Time in space 190d 21h 54m Selection 1996 NASA Group Missions STS-100, Soyuz TMA-6, Expedition 11, STS-119 Mission insignia John Lynch Phillips, PhD (born April 15, 1951) is a NASA astronaut. Phillips is also a Naval Aviator and retired Captain, United States Navy Reserve.... Read full biography of John L. Phillips → 1 2 Ctrl → We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members... → 0 I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I... → 0 It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected. 0 In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never... → 0 There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday. 0 Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to... → 0 A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and... → 0 I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure... → 0 If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but... → 0 Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless... → 0 We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra... → 0 It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut. 0 My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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