Kathleen Rubins Quotes

There is good science you can do in space. There is stuff there you cannot do on Earth and we can gain understanding from it.

We are not building the space station for science any more than we went to the moon for science, but we got a hell of a lot of good science out of it.

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.

New Jersey makes important contributions to the space program. We want to make sure it just doesn't happen in Houston.

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

The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those are the kinds of things we're learning from the science. Fuel transfer technologies and all the things we can learn about the space environment are all valuable to us for pressing on out.

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation.

Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space.

Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.

I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.

I was a graduate student in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan called for the construction of a new space station. I knew then that I wanted to apply for the astronaut program, and this was an exciting development.

A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

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.

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

We do a lot of science on the space station. Over the course of the year, there'll be 400 to 500 different investigations in all different kinds of disciplines. Some are related to improving life on earth in material science, physics, combustion science, earth sciences, medicine.

When I got to college, I discovered how many incredible opportunities NASA offered students pursuing a career in the space industry.

As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment.

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

I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.

NASA has made a difference.

I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I'm just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.

I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.