Chris Hadfield Quotes

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

I actually want to go up into space.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

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

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

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I'd love to go to space. I would love to peek out a giant window and look back at the blue marble. There's no question; I'd love to do that.

Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is just unbelievable, everything about it. You are going around the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, so you have 45 minutes of sunlight followed by 45 minutes of darkness. You do a lap every 90 minutes.

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.

I always knew I'd go to space.

As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

The best would be to fly in space with family and friends.

Walking in space is absolutely the most exhilarating part of a mission. The view is just incredible.

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

When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, 'Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.'

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.

We're in space and space is the place!

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.