Quotes from Anne McClain

We're not up here visiting space, we're up here living in space.

People are genuinely interested about what it's like to experience spaceflight and try to get some of our perspectives on it.

Up in space we don't have a huge wardrobe.

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

My favorite thing to see that I've been surprised at is watching the moon rises and moon sets that just move so fast it's like it jumps off of the horizon and up and over us.

In the future we're going to have interplanetary, we're going to have two planets that human beings are living on.

When something looks really risky from the outside, what people are doing on the inside - they're not professional risk takers. But they're probably professional risk mitigators.

My heart would race when I went to Pacific Science Center because I would pretend to be an astronaut, and now I get to come back and give back to the community that I think compelled me to where I am.

In space, everything is dependent on everything else and one hiccup causes a lot of ripple effects.

I tell you what, if you live in Spokane, I hope you wake up every day and you're thankful for the weather, for the trees, for the colors, for the greenery, for cars that stop when you're running and you go to cross the road and they stop. I love it.

We're using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in space and hit some of our deep-space exploration goals.

Every day is a good day when you're floating. Your whole life you spend walking around Earth and then all of a sudden you get to fly like you've dreamed of.

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.

The moon landing was such a magnificent accomplishment in U.S. space history. I think that boots on the moon was just one indicator of the rapid technology advancement and really just showed what we can do when all of us are dedicated to a single goal over a long period of time.

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.

I grew up in Spokane, Washington, and I can't recall ever not wanting to be an astronaut.

The hardest part about this business is being away from the kids. But what I hope to teach him - and what I hope to teach all kids that are kind of looking at this - is that to achieve anything, it takes a lot of sacrifice.

You can accomplish whatever you want to. You just got to throw your hat in the ring. You've got to get out there and do it.

We humans were built for exploration, and we were built to do it together.

One of the coolest things to me about living in space was it really caused me to think about how the human body and mind can adapt to completely different environments.

It's really amazing how the human mind and body can adapt to new environments. How the once incredible can become so normal.

Spaceflight gives us a chance to reflect on the context of our existence. We are reminded that we are human before any of our differences, before all of the lines are drawn that divide us.

Everything is better when you're floating. Every task you do is fun. You get up in the morning, get coffee, look around, and think, 'Wow, I'm floating!'

I remember riding the Space Needle and going up in the elevator and being scared, but thinking, 'This is going to be like going up a launch tower,' and so I would sit there and try to face that fear.