Chris Hadfield Quotes

Finally my dream came true in that there was a possibility that I could travel to the International Space Station. I've gone through the medicals and the training and now I'm officially, by the Russian Space Federation, a cosmonaut in training.

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.

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

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.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

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

From day one, I have been told I am no different from the male astronauts. As a pilot, I flew in the sky. Now that I am an astronaut, I will fly in space.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.

Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.

Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back.

By 1973, we had a space station, the Skylab, and we had multiple probes going up to planets. So, all this wonderful stuff happened in 10 to 15 years. About that time, there should have been enormous initiatives to make it affordable for people to fly in space, not just a handful of trained NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!

After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.

I'm not going into infinity. I'm going into low earth orbit.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.

There's going to be space travel at some point.