Mike Massimino: Why Failure Couldn't Keep this Astronaut from Outer Space [From the Archive]

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We're trained so well and there's so much support. And you have a certain way of doing things by the book, by the checklist. And your days are kinda planned around that. And it is some sort of simplicity to it that we don't have in normal life. Just doing regular things, you know, in life sometime can be

I find could be really tough. They're not people who never fail. They're people who never let failure stop them. You know the qualities for success Is not always being the smartest. Or the best even at something, but certainly I think it's in our game as astronauts, it's the ability to work with other people and maybe more importantly. Not to give up. And I think people discount that. But it's really important not to give up and if you get disappointed, it doesn't mean you can't do the job. It just means that

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