Sergey Volkov Quotes

After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.

I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

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

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here – our hopes and our journeys continue.

I think we know how to do Mars.

I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'

The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.

We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.

It's an international space station. We have crew members from both the U.S. and Russia and now the United Kingdom with Tim Peake from the U.K... It's great to see that, on this space station, that we can work across cultures in a very cooperative way.

I don't think people have an appreciation for the work that it takes to pull these missions off, like humans living on the space station continuously for 15 years. It is a huge army of hard-working people to make it happen.

I was born outside Kennedy Space Center.

We certainly would not be here, living and working on the International Space Station without the commitment and dedication of all the folks who worked the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Programs as well as the Russian Space Program.

I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

In the '60s astronauts were rockstars. Everyone wanted to be an astronaut.

If I were part of Gaganyaan, I could have been sure that for the next few years, there would have been a second space mission and a third space mission.

The building of the International Space Station is something wonderful, and it will show us how to take the next step beyond low-Earth orbit.