top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself."
Standard
Customized
More
"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Knowledge is intellectual art."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Knowledge is life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines."
Being
"I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself."
Thought
"The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland."
Medical
"I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is."
Health
"Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people."
People
"Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries."
Science
"I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together."
Being
"This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove."
Experience
"When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment."
Environment
"The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings."
Microgravity
bottom of page