Rakesh Sharma Quotes

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

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

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.

If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow.

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 wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.

Actually, I was the seventh private explorer but the first Canadian 'space clown.' I never dreamed of going into space; I just dreamed of traveling. But I admit that space is an incredible destination and the absolute traveling experience.

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

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

The thing I remember most about space is the view from the spacewalk. When I was inside the space shuttle and looking through the window, you can see the earth and the stars, and it's very beautiful, but it's like looking at an aquarium, sort of. When you go outside and spacewalk, you become a scuba diver.

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.

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

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.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut.

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.

Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.

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.

Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

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

Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.

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