Michael J. Massimino Quotes

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

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

I can remember walking on the moon.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

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

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.

Though I do not know much swimming, I am glad that both my children are getting better at it day by day.

I'm happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today, yeah, I'd take a jet flight to the moon.

Training for a fight is never easy, regardless of the opponent.

Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.

I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut.

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

Learning how to swim is the biggest achievement for me, as it helped me get rid of hydrophobia. Now I have become a complete water baby.

I was not really scared on my spacewalks. We practice so much and need to stay so focused that it has a calming effect on me. I do a kind of visualization and meditation in the airlock prior to going outside, to guide my first activities once I get out in space.

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.

Most of us at least briefly considered answering, 'An astronaut,' when asked as children what we wanted to be when we grew up.

In space, you need to stay as 'usual' as possible. On the space station, I would brush my hair every day.

When I was ten years old, I would get up at 5 in the morning, cycle to the swimming baths, do an hour-and-a-half session, then cycle to school, do a day at school, then cycle back to the baths after.

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

If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing.

The exploration of space: Be it by humans or robots, based on the best choice for the mission and the most efficient means to return the data and science sought. Most of the time, this will mean we send robots due to cost and danger. But sometimes, we will need the irreplaceable judgment and descriptive abilities of a person on the spot.

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

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

I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.