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  1. “Well, the full breakfast gives you the calories that you're going to need for the next day or two. And the enemy is going to give you that pause that you need for the next day or two before you actually need to use the facilities. I mean, if things go well, we've got a six-hour journey to the space station. So that's not too much of a problem. But if things don't go well, we could be in that spacecraft for two and a half days before we get to the space station. There is a small Portal in your Soyuz spacecraft, but you don't want to be using it unless you have to.”

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  2. “Yes. And I think that was the inspiration for the book as to write it not as a chronological sort of history looking into the technical sides. It was very much a human story of the people, the people who do this and why they do this and what we've done and how we've got there and where we're about to go back again.”

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  3. “But by speaking to my friends and by knowing what they're doing and the training they're doing and this return to the moon, I kind of thought it was the right time to reflect on how have we got here and the journey and why has it taken so long? Why is it that it's been over 50 years? Why do so many people not believe that we even went there in the first place? It's been over 50 years. Been over 50 years. I mean, 72 was Gene Cernan when he last left the surface of the moon. And that's when you were born. Yeah, I was eight months old. So I have no recollections of anybody walking on the moon. So in your entire life.”

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  4. “Not too old. We're still flying till about 63. I think the cutoff is for the European Space Agency. So I've got a few years left of me. So I think...”

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  5. “I wish I could. And why can't you? Three NASA astronauts and then Jeremy Hansen, who's a Canadian space agency, all four of them I know very well. So the UK could definitely have an astronaut on an Artemis mission in the future, but not on this first Artemis.”

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  6. “Me, it was really looking at what we're doing right now, and some of my friends and my colleagues right now who are looking to fly on Artemis 2, which could be as soon as a year away, to go back to the moon.”

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  7. “I didn't really find it difficult reintegrating as a family man and the morning after I returned to earth my two boys were jumping on the bed waking me up with a cup of tea in a newspaper and then it was kind of straight back into family life and I think that really helped it you know it helps keep you grounded and helps keep you motivated and gives you a different focus and so having spent a long time away from my family in the training and the years before spaceflight that was something that I wanted to do was to refocus on on spending more time with the family and so there are definitely moments where I do kind of pause and look up I think on a daily basis I probably think about my time in space at some point yes but it's something that actually gives me strength and it gives me you know motivation often to be able to deal with different problems I have back down here on earth I kind of you know sometimes think well come on Tim if you can do a spacewalk you got this”

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  8. “We're looking at the timeline at the moment for Artemis 3, which is the return to the surface of the moon, which NASA currently have 2025 in the calendar. I don't think it will be. It's going to probably be slipping by one, maybe two years. But certainly by the end of this decade, we will see humans once again on the surface of the moon. And then we'll be building a gateway, which is a small orbiting station around the moon, which will help to service those lunar missions. So I think by 2035, we will have a permanent structure on the surface of the moon at the South Pole. And I think soon after that, we'll start to see astronauts spending maybe one month, two months at that research station in addition to being in lunar orbit.”

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  9. “No, it's not. So, in terms of what we're initially looking to do, these are science based missions that we're currently looking at. But what we're trying to do is get the framework, the regulatory framework ahead of the point at which the conversation about mining the moon might become a reality. That's not something that's being looked at right now, but we need to get the regulatory framework in place so that it doesn't become something that's contested. The point that it might happen at 20, 30 years in the future. And that's why moving beyond United Nations, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the United States have set up the Artemis Accords. And the Artemis Accords has, I think, got about 22 signatories to it, including the United Kingdom. And this is the US interpretation, if you like, of the 67 treaty, taking it into a framework that could be used to explore the moon and could be used to explore Mars. So responsibly,”

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  10. “Get that ownership of the entire planet. You don't think about your loyalties to your own country or your own continent or anything like that. You become an earthling. You become very proud of planet Earth as somewhere that you want to kind of look after.”

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  11. “I think everybody comes back from space changed in some way. You'd be a very strange individual not to have your perspective change. And yes, you kind of get this impression of Earth as a different place, that global consciousness, but it's not just saying that it's saying it against the backdrop, the vast black backdrop of space. You're like, that's it. Space is a big old scary place out there. It's not the nice blue sky that we look up at if the sun is shining. It's the blackest black you'll ever see and earth looks incredibly small, remote and fragile against that vast black backdrop. And so that's why I come back to the point that people, my colleagues, astronauts and scientists I work with don't look at just going to Mars because we think that's another viable planet is not. Earth is it. It's beautiful. It's home. And I think what we realize when you look down at Earth from space is you.”

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  12. “Again, I think it's part of that exploration footprint. I don't think at the moment there's an argument for going to Mars in terms of resources that could help us on Earth. But in terms of science and exploration, in terms of potentially finding out if life ever existed on another planet, being able to do geological surveys and learning more about our own planet, Mars and Earth about three billion years ago were very, very similar planets in terms of the amount of liquid water forming oceans and in terms of their atmospheric composition. And Earth's gone in one direction and Mars has gone in a completely different direction. That could be a wake-up call to us here. It could give us an indication of how planets lose their atmosphere, how planets lose their oceans and what we might need to do back here on Earth to stop that from happening to us.”

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  13. “So, in terms of kind of the science, we're looking at setting up a laboratory, a station effectively at the south pole of the moon. The reason that's being chosen as a location is because there's water ice there, so where you have water ice, then clearly you can get water and oxygen, hydrogen and oxygen, which is rocket fuel as well. And so it can help with the life support systems and fuel for future launches. And also there are areas where it's in permanent sunshine. So you can set up solar panels and provide energy for your base. And then we're starting to look at the kind of minerals that might be on the surface of the moon that could potentially help us in the future as Earth's resources do become more scarce and we become more reliant on precious metals and different minerals for things like our batteries for electric vehicles, for our power plants. I'll come back to fusion, perhaps helium-3, if fusion energy becomes a viable source. And so these kind of”

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  14. “No, I think we need guidelines in place. I don't think any company should be allowed to go unchecked. I don't think open AI should with ChatGPT. I think the challenge that we face now is that some of the technologies that we're developing are advancing at such a rate that our regulatory framework is not keeping up. And so I do applaud what they're doing. I think some of the things that these companies are doing are phenomenal and we'll have huge benefits to humanity, but they must be kept under checks and balances. In space, we're currently working on this 1967 treaty, out of space treaty. So that needs desperately needs updating to reflect an era where we're about to explore the surface of the moon. And it could be very contested once we find resources that need to be mined.”

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  15. “This huge new rocket where they just launched the second one last week. One of the things that that offers is a massive reduction of the cost of getting to space. And when you look at the Space Shuttle, it costs $57,000 to get a kilogram into low Earth orbit. Elon Musk today will do that for $1,500 on a Falcon Heavy. When Starship works, it could be as low as $100. So the stuff that is science fiction, I guess it goes back to what we were talking about earlier, the stuff that we think is science fiction for $100 a kilogram to space, not science fiction anymore. That's a good business model. That makes economic sense.”

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  16. “The cutting edge lies, and that was the appeal to me as a task pilot thinking, gosh, you know, to have the opportunity to go and work with the space industry where we're dealing with new metals, new composites, you know, latest artificial intelligence. All of this kind of new technology. But it's also about focusing on Earth. People think that we're just, or people like Elon Musk, et cetera, or the space agencies want to go to Mars because we've damaged Earth. Let's just go and colonize another planet, which is absolutely not the case. Nobody I speak to in the space industry has that mentality at all. It's about doing research for the benefit of people back on Earth. I mean, I talk for hours about what we do on the space station for that. And there's some really interesting things going on right now with pharmaceuticals, for example, with developing new drugs. And the potential for solar power, again, clean, limitless energy coming from space. And one of the things that Starship and that space X Elon Musk company built.”

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  17. “Think space has always been somewhere where people have looked up and you go back through history and imagine what it was like for our ancestors just looking up at the night sky and what the stars have taught us some of our greatest scientific breakthroughs have just been about looking up at the night sky and realizing that the earth is not the center of the universe that actually we orbit this star and actually there's a milky way and there are galaxies out there and our understanding of how that then has informed science and technology on earth so i think what it is to be part of space is to be part of looking out there for new discoveries for new technologies new innovations the james webb space telescope is already just in its infancy in terms of its life expectancy but it's producing amazing images and and giving us such insight as to the early part of the universe and so i think that driving factor is is that it's where”

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  18. “And you are transported into another realm. It is a completely different place, it's a bit like diving, you know, when you're underwater and you're aware that you're in another environment where other things live. And this is an alien environment to you. If your equipment were to fail, you would die. And it's very unusual. And when you go into space, you've gone through that launch as well. And the violence of launch. And I guess what I mean by that is you're aware of how much energy it has taken to get you into orbit that you are in a different place, a very special place. You're outside of Earth's atmosphere. The sun is not the same. It's a bright nuclear fusion. The purest whites you'll ever see. I mean, the surface of the moon must have been incredible, just reflecting all of that white with a lunar regolith with no wind. It's just such an alien environment that it would have been very hard for them to kind of be able to try and”

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  19. “I think there's a burden on you to try and articulate what it is, the experience that you've been through. And that is difficult because even now, I don't think I fully processed what the spacewalk was like. And there were some moments there that were completely surreal as you're floating there in the blackness, just waiting and watching the planet go into darkness. And I remember speaking to Al Warden, Apollo 15 command module pilot, and he had to do a spacewalk halfway back from the moon. They were retrieving the film canisters from the lander module. And he could cover the earth with his thumb and he could cover the moon with his thumb. He was so far between both. And NASA said, you know, we've got a few.”

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  20. “Exactly. And way better than my French C at GCSE. There was one amusing moment on a, when two of my Russian colleagues were out on a spacewalk. And I was the one who was having to get them back in. And the other three crew members had to shut themselves inside their Soyuz spacecraft at that time because of the way the space station worked. So I was the only person on board the ISS having to get them back in. And my Russian language was letting me down slightly. It's frustrating for them too, a little bit as they were tapping on the hatch window saying, come on, Tim, you've got this.”

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  21. “I certainly had to pass my, I think it was intermediate high exam before you're allowed to, which is better than you did.”

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  22. “I was, yes, yes, speaking Russian and all of our manuals and our documents in the Sawyer's spacecraft. It's all in Russian. There's no English spoken in that spacecraft and all your communication with Moscow mission control centers in...”

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  23. “They are, yes. And I think it comes down to the fact that it's that common goal, that the space program is incredibly important to the Russians. It's obviously part of their history and culture. And they're very proud of what they've achieved in terms of their history of spaceflight. And the International Space Station is currently what they have as their space program. It's their beacon of technology and innovation. So as to why we all work together, it's because it has equal value to the Russians as it does to the Canadians, Japanese, Europeans, and Americans.”

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  24. “No, he's quite austere. Star City is definitely of that communist era. What really stands out, which is quite amusing, is that the Americans have built a line of lovely white New England cottages. So when their NASA astronauts go over to stay there, they've got some more sort of American style accommodation.”

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  25. “It's just allowed to talk about one. It was about an hour outside of Moscow, and it's the same location. It's a bit like the Johnson Space Center in Houston, as in it's got all of that nostalgia and history about it. When you go to Houston, you can go into the old mission control room that was used for the Apollo landings. And the stamens Star Council. It's got the same centrifuge that the Soviet cosmonauts all trained in. We stay in the same accommodation blocks.”

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  26. “No, I was over in Moscow, sorry, in Star City. I probably spent up a total of about two years in Star City training. We have to learn all about the Russian segment of the space station. And I actually learned how to do a spacewalk using the Russian equipment.”

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  27. “Well, working with the Russians, we tend to put politics to one side, and our Russian colleagues do too. We're there to do a job and we share a common goal.”

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  28. “Whittling down the pool of individuals who are the most likely candidates to be able to go and do a successful long duration mission to space.”

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  29. “Yeah, I know. Do you know what surprised me as well? Perfect. Well, I think that's a bit of a myth really because most of us are fit because it benefits you if you are. And that's not necessarily for the job in hand. I mean, spacewalking is physically demanding. So it does help there. But it's mostly for when you come back to Earth. The fitter you are, the better you're going to be at recovering and the less painful it's going to be on your body. So most of us, you know, do quite a lot of physical activity and we keep ourselves fit and healthy. But actually when the space agencies are doing that medical evaluation, they're not testing Olympic levels of fitness or athleticism. What they're after is medical robustness, really. They're after a low risk candidate, somebody who's unlikely to have a cardiovascular problem, unlikely to have anything go wrong with their immune system or their skeletal system.”

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  30. “Absolutely. I mean, phenomenal situational awareness, competence, and intimate knowledge of his spacecraft to be able to do something like that without any help from ground control or anybody else. So I think that's probably one of the examples I would go back to.”

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  31. “All one is going on, bring up his reentry control system and use a completely different system to then have to think about what's my rotation rate, what angle am I going, so which thrusters need to fire to reduce this rate and not make it worse. Bring the spacecraft under the results.”

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  32. “Because he had such knowledge of the system. He was able to identify where the fort might be, disable systems, bring up an alternative system.”

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  33. “One of the thrusters had basically firing, had stuck on. And so it was giving a constant force, which was causing the spacecraft to have this constant rotation. And in space, that will build up incredibly rapidly because there's nothing to slow you down. There's no drag. There's no friction and no Any other astronaut at the time, or maybe even since would have been able to rectify that situation?”

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  34. “There are several examples I could give, but I'll probably come back to Neil Armstrong. And a lot of people recognize Neil Armstrong as the first human to walk on the surface of the moon. But as a test pilot, he was a phenomenally skilled pilot and a very competent operator. And on his Gemini 8 mission, he had a docking to this Agena capsule. And it was the first time they were trying to dock. And actually that part of the mission went really smoothly. And it was textbook and everybody was celebrating thinking this is fantastic. Then there was a loss of communication. And at that point, there was a slight rotation happening. And Neil thought, well, this is time to undock because the Agena module is probably rotating us and knocking us off course. So undocked, at which point their Gemini capsule went into an uncontrolled spin. And it hadn't been a problem with the Aegina. It had been a problem with their own Gemini.”

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  35. “You're kind of hanging off this pole, shimming along it. And of course, you've been surrounded by structure for so long, a couple of hours outside doing these jobs working with tools. And suddenly I'm hanging on to a pole halfway between two large objects. And I look down and my brain just says, well, if you're hanging on to a pole and you're 400 kilometers up, you must be about to fall. And just got this wave of vertigo kind of gripped onto this pole as if my life depended upon it and then realized, come on, you know, just wiggle your toes, relax. If you let go, you're going to be fine. You're not going to go anywhere. But it was just reminding the brain that I was in weightlessness that I wouldn't fall if I let go.”

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  36. “I didn't know that I did get vertigo until I was kind of out on the space station. It just happened that once when it's quite funny your brain plays tricks on it. Chris Cassidy, he's a NASA astronaut and ex US Navy SEAL. And he had said to me, look, on your first spacewalk, there's probably going to come a time where you'll get a bit disorientated and you might get some vertigo. So just wiggle your toes and it really, really works. And I was coming back from repairing one of the solar panels. And there's a shortcut that you can take back to the airlock. And I was taking this unit about the size of a small fridge along this shortcut, which is a pole about 20 meters.”

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  37. “So exciting, and I really enjoyed advancing this aircraft, making it more efficient, making it safer and more effective. That's what I want to do when I get back to the UK.”

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  38. “The Apache Longbow helicopter this fully digital helicopter with radar incredibly advanced and I joined their most advanced battalion and actually as the Brit officers who joined I was kind of given one of the jobs that nobody else wanted to do initially as the ops officer was to make this aircraft speak to the rest of the battlefield. The battalion commander said to Tim, I'm sorry you've got it. So you've got one year. We've got a major exercise coming up. This Apache needs to be able to be fully digitally integrated. And I turned into a bit of a geek that year. It has to be said I just had to get into the weeds of this aircraft, understand it implicitly. And I was working with every other unit in three core, in a US Army Corps, and I was working with the U.S. Air Force getting JSTAR's aircraft overhead so we could digitally speak to them. And I came away from that tour thinking, this has been so amazing.”

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  39. “For me, at that point in my life, it's always been about flying. It really has. There was a moment, I think, in the United States where I take it another step backwards, really, when I first started flying, I enjoyed it so much I wanted to stay flying. And so I kind of made that decision that you were alluding to earlier about the career choice quite early on because I wanted to be an instructor. Part of the reason was to keep me in the cockpit, keep me flying. I wasn't going to be an adjutant or a ops officer, things that other captains were doing at the time. And because I joined when I was 20 and I did have time on my side, that was an advantage. So I was able to go away and do my instructors course. And I built up thousands of hours of flying. So then, of course, that had a value to the army. And so when I then said, well, listen, I'd like to do this exchange program over the United States. Again, it was another kind of stalling block, but it kept me flying and it kept me doing interesting jobs. And that was a groundbreaking moment because the United States at the time, they're just...”

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  40. “Still part of the European Space Agents, yes, it's not an EU organization yet. Hopefully, it won't be. The EU does contribute to the European Space Agency, they're a major contributor, and they run programs like Galileo and Copernicus, which is why Galileo became a problem for the UK. So, I mean, yes, to get back to your question, a lot of it does come down to politics and funding because part of the return of having a national astronaut flown in space is dependent upon you paying some money into the program. So it wasn't really until we did that in 2012 that I was then considered for a mission.”

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  41. “When they come back in terms of contracts for whatever your nation happens to be good at, so whether it's with the Germans, it might be Airbus and Bremen building modules to the space station for the UK it might be building the Mars rover, the Rosalind Franklin rover, it might be communication satellites, it might be Goonhilly, Clydespace. It basically looks at the space industry and where they can reward that investment and where the contracts can offer jobs and benefits to the economy. So that's how we get value out of our money.”

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  42. “Now, there's a good question. It is. Would I have overflowed? I don't know the answer to that question. But the way things work with the European Space Agency is, you know, it's on a geo return basis. So you pay into the programs and you get that return. And we do get a very good return. We get about economically it's a 10 to 1 return on every pound spent with the European Space Agency.”

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  43. “Absolutely, yes, yeah. And it was a real shock to myself and so many of us in the UK because this was the first time the European Space Agency had ever asked anybody in the UK to apply up until this point, those nations that contributed to human spaceflight would select and put forward their own astronauts. So the French, the Germans, the Italians were having their own selection process and saying to European space agency, here's our French astronaut, you know, go and train them and fly them. And at this point in 2008, ESA decided to say, no, no, we're going to space agency. We will select our astronauts and every member state is eligible to apply whether or not they contribute into the human spaceflight program, which is just a small part of the European Space Agency or not. So it was a groundbreaking moment and thousands of people in the UK clearly jumped at the chance along with myself.”

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  44. “I think for me, it's a case of always just being true to yourself and true to what it is that you want to do. I've always been one who focused on the journey and not really worried too much about the destination. And it's great to have those long-term ambitions and those goals. I love hearing those stories and I'm in awe of people who set themselves and then go on and achieve them. But for me, I've always had a more of a sort of a two-year focus and not worried so much about the 10-year focus.”

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  45. “I was flying helicopters. I was a helicopter test pilot. And actually, the reason I had gone to join Westlands helicopters down in Yeoville at the time was because my military career had come to the point I was a major and I was just finishing a tour as a test pilot to Boscombe Down. And I'd been offered a very good squadron command. It was part of the Special Forces Squadron. And it was incredibly appealing. But for me to have gone and done that, it would have been more of a desk job. And then the next step on from that would have been Staff College and promotion and very much up the career chain. And I knew that as sort of rewarding as that job would have been and the allure of doing it, it was actually a step out of the cockpit. It was a step away from what I was loving. And so I decided to leave the army at that point and go to Westland Sallycock.”

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  46. “Well, I was very fortunate that I was doing a job that I absolutely loved beforehand. And it had been my first passion and that was flying”

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  47. “You are, but the space station actually, everybody works as individuals most of the time. There are a few tasks where you might be paired up a complicated experiment, for example, or on spacewalks, et cetera. But for the majority of your six months in space, you're working very hard every day as an individual running around doing lots of maintenance and lots of experiments, communicating with the ground. And in the evenings, you actually want to come together as a crew and have that meal and just share a bit of sort of you. Even if it is tasteless mushroom. No, the food's got a little bit better. But yeah, you do actually enjoy that element of socialization.”

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  48. “What was hilarious is on the first day of Sandas you arrive and we've all got ironing boards under our arms as we get, you know, we marched off into our barracks and for the recruits it's straight into drill and being shouted out. But whilst that's all going on, all the parents escorted into the very nice ante room and coffee and tea is laid on with cake and biscuits. They come away saying, isn't Santa a wonderful place? And they're all so lovely.”

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  49. “I think you don't need to. You're not having to go out and command soldiers on the battlefield. What you are having to do is to be exceptionally competent at the job that you're being asked to do. And from that point of view, you're your own drill sergeant because when you go down in the swimming pool for six hours at a time in your spacesuit and you'll do your practicing spacewalking, it is incredibly physically and mentally demanding. And you will be evaluated on your performance, but you're going to be the one who will suffer if your performance isn't up to scratch. So you just don't need anybody else bawling at you to tell you to knuckle down and do a good job. If you don't, you're out the door.”

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  50. “You can't go bowling in their shouting at people. You'll not get anything achieved at all. So completely different, really, in terms of the way that you have to go about your daily business.”

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