Quotes About ISS

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.

I am the Sovereign of Iss!" the girl declared. "And you are the daughter of Ciwril Xidyla! They had better listen to us.

Columbia got into orbit without any trouble, docked on schedule with the ISS, and successfully completed a multidisciplinary microgravity and Earth science research mission lasting more than two weeks.

I remember taking a space walk on the ISS. There I was, wrench in hand, tightening bolts on a new module. It was such a mundane task. But when I looked in one direction, there was Earth floating in vivid blues and greens. In the other direction, I could see the blackest black conceivable, punctured by unwavering pinpoints of starshine.

The ISS operates as the 'anchor customer' in low earth orbit to support new commercial space services, including delivery of cargo and, before long, crew transportation services.

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

Sequencing DNA on the ISS will enable NASA to see what happens to genetic material in space in real time, rather than looking at a snapshot of DNA before launch and another snapshot of DNA after launch and filling in the blanks.

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.

Ahh... I've never seen that before. - What? - Someone wearing glasses up here. - Really? Then that should tell how urgent the situation is. Boris Ivanowich to Kate Mishima, on board of ISS