I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.
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.
My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody.
My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.
I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.
I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.
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