Sunita Williams Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I was a flight engineer on my second flight, which is the most senior position a non-American can have aboard the shuttle. We're the cockpit crew. We fly the vehicle up to space, dock the vehicle to the space station, undock it at the end of the mission, and return it to the ground.

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

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

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 can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the Hubble Space Telescope.

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

I'm looking forward to getting to space, looking back to earth out the copula window. I think all of it is going to be a completely new experience that I can't quite predict.

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

I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle.

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.

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

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.

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

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.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.