Peggy Whitson Quotes
Breaking records has never been my goal. I think it's important that we're continually pushing our limits and showing that we can extend beyond what we have done before.
Whitson, Peggy. Post-Flight Press Conference. NASA Television, NASA, 15 Sept. 2017.
At the time Eigen was serving as the CEO of a corporation that ran various programs under contract to the Federal Government. Two decades later, the founder of Facebook, a man whose goals were never set low, had a more sophisticated way of phrasing this principle. See {631133}.
Peggy Annette Whitson is an American biochemistry researcher, retired NASA astronaut, and former NASA Chief Astronaut. Her first space mission was in 2002, with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 5. Her second mission launched October 10, 2007, as the first female commander of the ISS with Expedition 16. She was on her third long-duration space flight and was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 51, before handing over command to Fyodor Yurchikhin on June 1, 2017.
