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We're fortunate to have football on the space station.
The International Space Station is a great place to live for a year.
We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
The training flow for the space station is a year-and-a-half to two years.
The space station here is a magical place and an incredible science facility.
A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
In space, you need to stay as 'usual' as possible. On the space station, I would brush my hair every day.
We have a lot of systems here on board the space station, and we can't call a repair man when one of them breaks.
I think a good life-work balance is important, and that's even more important in some cases on the space station.
I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.
The main goal of the International Space Station is to work on peaceful projects. In space, we're all people from Earth.
I don't mean to say it's not fresh on the space station, but there's nothing like new, cold air coming into the capsule.
I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.
I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.
We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.
One of the things I think is really cool that we're testing on board the International Space Station is the water reclamation system.
Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food.
Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to leaving, but it is a remarkable place.
We used to have a crew of three on board the space station and even at one time a crew of two people, so it's something we can adjust to.
What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy.
The building of the International Space Station is something wonderful, and it will show us how to take the next step beyond low-Earth orbit.
Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.
I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.
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.
After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.
The Space Station is primarily made of aluminum. The smell is really weird and sort of like burning metal. It is absolutely distinct and totally repeatable.
There's actually an incredible amount of parallels between working in central Congo in a remote, isolated village and doing research aboard the space station.
And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
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.
The Earth is a beautiful planet. The space station is a great vantage point to observe it and share our planet in pictures. It makes you more of an environmentalist.
We've got to get rid of the stuff on the space station somehow. So we do have a pretty significant capability to bring back stuff on SpaceX that you might not imagine.
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.
I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.
It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space.
I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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.
While we've taken seeds into space, and astronauts on the International Space Station have eaten lettuce they've grown, we haven't produced fruit in space, so we can't pollinate something.
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.
A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.
Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren't that much closer. Our home, the International Space Station, orbits around the Earth at about 200 miles.
It's really a good feeling to know that we put this up there, that it's working, that all these people's plans that worked so hard came together and things fit and we've got a real space station.
As far as the sounds on the space station, it's pumps, fans, motors, certain modules are louder than others, but it's generally a pretty nice working environment. It's not too loud or too smelly.
I think that my career and perhaps me being on the International Space Station can really show women and girls and everybody that hey, we're not just sitting at the table, we're leading the table.
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.
When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.
We've learned a lot by building the International Space Station, the good, the bad. But, the fact is is that working together as a team, unity aboard that space station, we can accomplish great things.