So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.
From Duane G. Carey
I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.
You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.
Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.
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.
And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.
So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.
I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.
I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.
And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.
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