Chris Hadfield Quotes

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.

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!

Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth, like gravity, that can make things a bit challenging. One of the fun things about getting here is the zero gravity and floating around. But it also makes things very difficult.

Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

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

The International Space Station is a great place to live for a year.

It's just this beautiful laboratory in space, and it's doing a lot of really cool things. So being up there and just being able to fly through that big station one more time and do some experiments while you're up there and get that view out of the cupola... priceless.

When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget.

Our goal is to tell people about the International Space Station. I think very rarely people look up 250 miles and think, What are those guys working on, what are those men and women doing at this moment... They're living and doing regular things, but also doing incredible work as well. We really want to bring that to people.

I've been so lucky to have done two spacewalks. If you looked at your wristwatch, I was outside about 15 hours, which is about 10 times around the world. And, you know, there's a whole time dilation, distortion thing.

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.

I don't know... it's just too much fun to wonder about what life would be without gravity. I just started thinking about outer space more as an adult than I probably ever did as a kid. That was also inspiring, the concept of being stuck to the earth.

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

The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.

Up in space we don't have a huge wardrobe.

We try to keep it a normal day while we're up in space. You know, you don't want to change your time cycle too much, so we just keep it normal. And so, about 5 or 6 o'clock at night, after we finish working, we knock it off by having prerecorded shows that we watch sometimes through the computer while we're eating dinner.

We're not up here visiting space, we're up here living in space.

I've flown in space four times now, so it's going to be hard in that respect, but I certainly look forward to going back to Earth. I've been up here for a really long time and sometimes, when I think about it, I feel like I've lived my whole life up here.

Gravity is a really heavy force and you don't realize how heavy it is until you haven't felt it for six and a half months.

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

After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

Saved by the Bell' in space would be so great.

We're fortunate to have football on the space station.

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