It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.

I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.

We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

For me, and people like me, fighting isn't what we do; it's who we are.

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.