You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting…

It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.

— Luca Parmitano

To be on my very first spacewalk, to be outside, and to have contamination in my suit to the point that I couldn't see…

— Chris Hadfield

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

— Kevin A. Ford

It's a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It's much riskier than staying indoors. It's complex. It uses up a lot of the…

— Chris Hadfield

In the space shuttle program, where we had males and females, I can tell you that nobody was doing that [sex] because there's absolutely…

— Mike Mullane

The thing I remember most about space is the view from the spacewalk. When I was inside the space shuttle and looking through the…

— Michael J. Massimino

Getting into a space suit and going outside, to me, getting your peripheral vision involved and looking at the Earth was a whole different…

— Leroy Chiao

You absolutely know you're in space when you're doing a spacewalk. That was pretty interesting because you can feel vacuum. It actually changes your…

— Kathleen Rubins

You're very well trained for the spacewalk, so when you go outside, it's not like the movies.

— Leroy Chiao

On my first mission, I was the spacewalk supervisor: the person that runs the spacewalk from inside the vehicle. As such, I was the…

— Julie Payette

Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.

— Valentina Tereshkova

I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people to pursue…

— Mark Shuttleworth

This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because…

— Leroy Chiao

“Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“(The Soviet space agency did not traditionally give cosmonauts steak and eggs before launch; it gave them a one-liter enema.) Fahey,”

— Mary Roach