I Wasn’t Destined To Be

One Chief Astronaut Used To Make A Point Of Phoning The Front Desk At The Clinic Where Applicants Are Sent For Medical Testing, To Find Out Which Ones Treated The Staff Well-and Which Ones Stood Out In A Bad Way. The Nurses And Clinic Staff Have Seen A Whole Lot Of Astronauts Over The Years, And They Know What The Wrong Stuff Looks Like. A Person With A Superiority Complex Might Unwittingly, Right There In The Waiting Room, Quash His Or Her Chances Of Ever Going To Space.

Our Role Is To Develop Techniques That Allow Us To Provide Emergency Life-saving Procedures To Injured Patients In An Extreme, Remote Environment Without The Presence Of A Physician.

I Guarantee If You Walk Into 100 Spider Webs, You Will Have Changed Your Fundamental Human Behavior. And You Can Apply This To Anything, And Figure Out A Way To Reprogram Yourself, To Change Your Primal Fear.

It's Good To Have A Fear Of Heights. I Mean, It's Kind Of Crazy Not To Because If You Just Lean Out A Little Bit And There's A Gust Of Wind Or Somebody Bumps You Or Something And You Fall, You're Splat.

I Wasn’t Destined To Be An Astronaut. I Had To Turn Myself Into One.