Rachael Ray Quotes

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity.

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

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.

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

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.

On Earth, I weighed 150 pounds; my suit and backpack weighed another 150. 300 pounds. Up there, I weighed only 50. So I could prance around on my toes. It was quite easy to do.

To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing.

I'm just tickled pink that I'll be on Endeavour's last flight.

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

It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's quite an achievement.

I had pretty much done it all before I went into space. So when the opportunity came, I went along. It was that simple.

In space, if you push, you are usually going somewhere, so staying on the treadmill was a challenge at first, even with the harness.

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.

The first thing to know about space food - it is the ambiance; it is the environment. It is not the food.

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

One of my early heroes was Sally Ride, the first American woman 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.

Adjusting to space is easier than adjusting to Earth for me.

Now, space has its own unique smell. So whenever a vehicle docks, or if guys are out doing a spacewalk, the smell of space when you open up the hatch is very distinct. It's kind of like a burning-metal smell, if you can imagine what that would smell like.