Chris Hadfield Quotes

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.

I'd love to go to space. I would love to peek out a giant window and look back at the blue marble. There's no question; I'd love to do that.

In 2009 I went up on the space shuttle. I was in space for 16 days and docked at the space station for 11 days. The entire crew did five space walks, of which I was involved with three of them. When you're doing a space walk, you always have a buddy with you. It's a very dangerous environment when you're doing a space walk.

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is just unbelievable, everything about it. You are going around the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, so you have 45 minutes of sunlight followed by 45 minutes of darkness. You do a lap every 90 minutes.

The view from space is really very special. From the window, you can look back at the Earth and see the stars around you. I just hope that more people from Britain get the chance to experience it.

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

That's really why I want to go to space - I want to be weightless for so long that it gets boring.

I remember taking a space walk on the ISS. There I was, wrench in hand, tightening bolts on a new module. It was such a mundane task. But when I looked in one direction, there was Earth floating in vivid blues and greens. In the other direction, I could see the blackest black conceivable, punctured by unwavering pinpoints of starshine.

On Earth, I weighed 150 pounds; my suit and backpack weighed another 150. 300 pounds. Up there, I weighed only 50. So I could prance around on my toes. It was quite easy to do.

The first time I went into space was just so much more than you could imagine or prepare yourself for.

I was the 128th human in space. So I didn't really sweat about it.

When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, 'Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.'

After my spacewalks, I am quite exhilarated but also tired, similar to a workout on Planet Earth.

I would always consider flying in space again, without a question.

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.