You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.

Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

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.

Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.

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.

There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.