Grant Imahara Quotes

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.

Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.

In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.

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

Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.

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

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!

Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs.

Space is going to be commonplace.

I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.

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

Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk about space and tell me a few things about how things would really 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.

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

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

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.

The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you can invite people on-board, which is what I worked so hard to do on social media and all the videos I made.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home.

The time will come when we permit more people in space.

One of the great things about the space program is it's super well-documented.

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

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