Helen Sharman Quotes

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.

Once you get into the spacecraft, you're on your way, you've got a mission, you're focused, and it's really exciting.

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

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.

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

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

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.

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

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.

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

In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.

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

A lot of people, I think, would love to see the earth from above, wear a spacesuit. Certainly, when I was a kid, I wanted to wear a spacesuit.

My first mission was six and a half months. We weren't exactly sure how long it was going to be because I went up and back on the space shuttle, which was dependent on weather for launch and landing.

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

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

The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.

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!

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

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

One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.