Peggy Whitson Quotes
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Everything every day here on Earth is based on gravity, and you don't realize it until you don't have it anymore.
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My work ethic is, I think, from my farm life.
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I learned to not be afraid to fix things that break.
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It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.
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I do think space hotels are probably in our future.
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I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.
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It's been fun doing interviews with the other astronauts, getting to hear: 'Oh, that's how he explains it' or 'That's how she thinks about it.' We work together, but we don't necessarily share all those thoughts or ideas.
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To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing.
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Work ethic is probably my No. 1 value and No. 1 attribute.
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Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.
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I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I'm just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.
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My undergraduate, I double-majored in biology and chemistry. Biology was kind of my love.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Drive and desire was something I was raised with. It became a very important part of how I've become.
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On my first flight, I don't know if maybe it's a function of time, or if I was less stressed on my second flight, but just being able to tell what part of the planet we were flying over by the reflected light coming through the window - that was pretty special.
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The first time I went into space was just so much more than you could imagine or prepare yourself for.
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Life in zero gravity is hard to simulate. We practice on the ground what we call 'the day in the life' simulations, but it's just practicing some of the tests. It can't prepare you for the fact that all of your tools float if you don't pay attention to where they are! If you don't Velcro things down, they're gonna float away.
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I think probably the discoveries made by Hubble Space Telescope have been very dramatic, very amazing.
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One of the things I think is really cool that we're testing on board the International Space Station is the water reclamation system.
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Walking in space is absolutely the most exhilarating part of a mission. The view is just incredible.
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Find your passion. Because with that passion, you can do anything.
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After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.