I don't sing in the shower.

My work ethic is, I think, from my farm life.

I love Italian, Mexican, Thai. Something spicy.

I do think space hotels are probably in our future.

I think, just philosophically, we're made to explore.

Unfortunately, spaceflight takes a lot of time and money.

Work ethic is probably my No. 1 value and No. 1 attribute.

One of the astronauts I came to admire the most is John Young.

It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

I would love to set foot on another planet - lunar or Mars or somewhere.

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

You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

My undergraduate, I double-majored in biology and chemistry. Biology was kind of my love.

Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.

I like to say I'm determined; some people would call it stubborn. It depends on your perspective.

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

Know what it is that drives you - motivates you - and pursue it. Endeavor to work to make it happen.

Drive and desire was something I was raised with. It became a very important part of how I've become.

The first time I went into space was just so much more than you could imagine or prepare yourself for.

I think probably the discoveries made by Hubble Space Telescope have been very dramatic, very amazing.

You need to live a little bit outside your comfort zone because you can be even more than you dream of.

I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.

Space flight's good for age; I have a lot less wrinkles up here. It's a good place to be as you get older.

The advice I give young people is that you have to pursue something, and you have to have fun along the way.

Everything every day here on Earth is based on gravity, and you don't realize it until you don't have it anymore.

We are absolutely ready to go to Mars. It's going to be a fantastic journey getting there and very exciting times.

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.

I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.

I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs.

I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.

One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.

I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing.

One of the things I think is really cool that we're testing on board the International Space Station is the water reclamation system.

In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!

I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration.

Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be a great commercial market.

Even if my job for the day is cleaning the vents or fixing the toilet, it still feels good to be a part of the space program and advancing exploration.

I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.

I have been blessed with some really special crewmates. Being able to be a really integral member of the team, no matter what role I was in, was truly special.

Gravity always sucks. It really, really does. It's a big challenge just re-adapting to feeling heavy again, you know? Even my arm feels heavy. My legs feel heavy.

Breaking records has never been my goal. I think it's important that we're continually pushing our limits and showing that we can extend beyond what we have done before.

In space for a short time, I think most people could survive that. If you're sending an average person who's healthy for a short period of time, I think that's quite doable.

A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.

Here, in low earth orbit, we're going around the earth, so we can actually use an Internet protocol phone because we have the appropriate satellites that can get those bandwidths.

I was inspired by the men who walked on the moon. It really was my inspiration, I think, you know, as a kid of 9 years old - I know I'm dating myself, but - I thought, 'What a cool job!'

I think the biggest advice that I could give people is to actually try and live beyond your dreams by pushing yourself, challenging yourself to do things a little bit outside of your comfort zone.

Zero gravity is such an alien environment - completely different from everything we've grown up with every single day of our lives. And it's incomprehensible how much better it was than I anticipated it would be.

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