It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space.
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We've got to get rid of the stuff on the space station somehow. So we do have a pretty significant capability to bring back stuff on SpaceX that you might not imagine.
What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy.
Since there always has to be a certain number of astronauts manning the station at all times, one of the main aspects of the mission was to transport a new team to the station and bring back some members of the previous team back to Earth.
And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life.
The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those are the kinds of things we're learning from the science. Fuel transfer technologies and all the things we can learn about the space environment are all valuable to us for pressing on out.
A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.
I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.
Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
I don't think we're wasting people in space.
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