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Cookie isn’t cattle. She is a domesticated pet with specific needs and dietary regulations that will help her maintain a glossy coat and her sharp mental acuity.

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Calm down.

No women, or person for that matter, ever calmed down when someone told them to.

… couldn’t do with alcohol because Doc said it might make me more susceptible to the bends … after my emergency rescue from the pool.

Some women might want flowers, but Jules is the kind that will appreciate baked goods.

Nitrox is a higher mixture of oxygen than humans normally breathe in everyday life. It helps reduce the risk of decompression sickness.

Neutral buoyancy is how astronauts train for microgravity.

LCVG = liquid cooling and ventilation garment

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extra modular unit (EMU) backpack

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maximum absorbency garment strapped to my @$$ (NASA never says “diaper”)

Hey now, this ranch is what made us a family.

No, you moron. You’re what made us a family. You just happened to do it here.

If I was a man, I’d be a great networker. A team leader. A smooth talker. But no. I’m a flirt. I’m manipulative. I’m fake.

You may not have money, but you’ve each got a brain. Use it.

… he trusts you with what he loved.

… doesn’t that mean that he trusted me to continue his work?

Not necessarily. I think he just knew that you loved it here.

NASA is actually a pretty fun place to work. We work hard, but we play hard too. Space Cowboys - now that’s a movie that really tells it like it is.

Holt: You know I’m younger than you, right?

Jules: By two years, Cowboy. And you’d never know it from the way you talk and act.

Her hair, always a bit unruly, is in a top knot, with more corkscrew curls escaped than captured.

Holt tops from the bottom

My grandfather always said spend the money on your men and the men will make you money.

pink paddle playlist

finger paint my lady box to

Bodie and Jackie are good with technical talk. I’m better at doing.

We go 40,000 feet up, 10,000 above general airliners. And the really fun part? It can get up to Mach 1.6.

T-38 jet. Painted white, hence the term “white rocket”

I roll my shoulders, trying to loosen the chip I’m now well aware is perched there.

Vagina snot = amniotic fluid?