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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It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.
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I learned to not be afraid to fix things that break.
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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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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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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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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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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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The first time I went into space was just so much more than you could imagine or prepare yourself for.
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After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.
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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.