And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian. Philippe Perrin Read Quote
And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that’s the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents. Philippe Perrin Read Quote
And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you’re relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station. Philippe Perrin Read Quote
I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them. Philippe Perrin Read Quote
I think doing something of your life is something that you’ve got deep inside, whether it’s to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever. Philippe Perrin Read Quote
I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts. Philippe Perrin Read Quote
I’ve been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone. Philippe Perrin Read Quote
So it’s, I think it’s quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience. Philippe Perrin Read Quote
It’s, I mean, for me, it’s the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It’s the most critical part of the flight, the ascent. Philippe Perrin Read Quote
Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a very important role in the ongoing expansion of the station as well as in the deployment of solar panels. Philippe Perrin Read Quote
