Jeri Ryan Quotes

People are genuinely interested about what it's like to experience spaceflight and try to get some of our perspectives on it.

The best would be to fly in space with family and friends.

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.

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

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

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

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

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.

I actually want to go up into space.

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.

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.

Who doesn't want to fly around in a spaceship?

It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling.

To be on my very first spacewalk, to be outside, and to have contamination in my suit to the point that I couldn't see in either eye - that, I think, would cause some people to lose control.

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.

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.

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

I always knew I'd go to space.

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

The space walks were amazing with the incredible views.

Walking in space is absolutely the most exhilarating part of a mission. The view is just incredible.

You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.

They say that in space, nobody can hear you scream. The first time I stepped out of the airlock, I was ready to scream - not because I was scared but because I was so excited to see the Earth below me.