top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Astronaut
"So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things."
44
"Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward."
44
"Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on."
44
"So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time."
44
"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
44
"Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess."
44
"Since there always has to be a certain number of astronauts manning the station at all times, one of the main aspects of the mission was to transport a new team to the station and bring back some members of the previous team back to Earth."
44
"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
43
"When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true."
43
"One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye."
43
"One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter."
43
"When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?"
43
"The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before."
43
"Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me."
43
"It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting."
43
"When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!"
43
"I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on."
42
"Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back."
42
"Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy."
42
"Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction."
42
"We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed."
42
"But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together."
Work,
42
"We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right."
42
"We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen."
Now,
42
"Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us."
42
"I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century."
42
"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it."
42
"I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it."
42
"Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic."
42
"It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there."
42
"Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days."
42
"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."
42
"And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives."
41
"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."
41
"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
41
"The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline."
41
"I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it."
41
bottom of page