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My life in science has been rich and rewarding. I have sacrificed very little.
To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile.
I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally.
In total, I have spent 35 years at Hokkaido University as a staff member - 2 and a half in the Faculty of Science, and the other 32 and a half in the Faculty of Engineering. Other than about two years of study in America and a few months in other places overseas, most of my life has been spent at the Faculty of Engineering.