Quotes About Space

Every person who went into the space industry did so because they looked up at the sky and were fascinated by it - not because they wanted to make a military or commercial object.

It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!

Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.

Sleeping here is harder here in space than on a bed because the sleep position here is the same position throughout the day. You don't ever get that sense of gratifying relaxation here that you do on Earth after a long day at work.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

We sleep very well in space. We have a sleeping bag each, and when you get into it, you float in the sleeping bag.

Medieval people didn't have special rooms for sleeping, just a single living space for everything. They put up with this lack of privacy partly for the lack of other options.

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.

We lived in so many flats, and the more people you could get, the cheaper the flat was. Someone was always sleeping in the living room, and you're always slightly hiding them when the landlord came round.

But floating for an extended period is truly amazing. My brain is constantly trying to figure out which way is up. It's an interesting challenge, one I find slightly amusing.

For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.

You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work like that for me.

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

The astronaut corps is a very small part of a very large team that enables human spaceflight.

We need Big Ideas, as we are in a time of small people, and as Kennedy showed with Apollo, doing something grand in space is the biggest. At a time of huge national doubt and fear of losing our leadership as a nation to others, it focused us, gave us something positive and inspired a generation.

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

A lot of people think that black makes rooms feel smaller, but it's the opposite.

Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!

When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget.

In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth.

The commercial space industry owes a huge debt to Patti Grace Smith. There might not be a commercial spaceflight industry were it not for Patti's leadership.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.