Thomas Marshburn Quotes

The calluses on your feet in space will eventually fall off. So, the bottoms of your feet become very soft like newborn baby feet. But the top of my feet develop rough alligator skin because I use the top of my feet to get around here on space station when using foot rails.

Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.

In 2009 I went up on the space shuttle. I was in space for 16 days and docked at the space station for 11 days. The entire crew did five space walks, of which I was involved with three of them. When you're doing a space walk, you always have a buddy with you. It's a very dangerous environment when you're doing a space walk.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut.

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.

I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling.

Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth, like gravity, that can make things a bit challenging. One of the fun things about getting here is the zero gravity and floating around. But it also makes things very difficult.

When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment.

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

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

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

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

Gravity is a really heavy force and you don't realize how heavy it is until you haven't felt it for six and a half months.

My first date was with Endeavour, and my last date is going to be with Endeavour, as far as space shuttles are concerned.

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

The ride to orbit was impressive, as it always is. But once I got on board the space station, it really felt like I was visiting an old home; it felt very comfortable.

The one thing we can't really train for is weightlessness, real weightlessness. It's a ton of fun. It's pure Newtonian physics. You push in one direction, you go in the opposite direction with an equal force.

Zero G and I feel fine.

Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality of space was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was not marred by unexpected hazards or catastrophes.

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!

We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.