Anne McClain

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

— Anne McClain

The astronaut corps is a very small part of a very large team that enables human spaceflight.

— Anne McClain

I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.

— Anne McClain

The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.

— Anne McClain

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred…

— Anne McClain

I joined the Army out of a deep sense of duty, but wanting to be an astronaut feels more like my destiny.

— Anne McClain

When something looks really risky from the outside, what people are doing on the inside - they're not professional risk takers. But…

— Anne McClain

My favorite thing to see that I've been surprised at is watching the moon rises and moon sets that just move so…

— Anne McClain

The moon landing was such a magnificent accomplishment in U.S. space history. I think that boots on the moon was just one…

— Anne McClain

We're not up here visiting space, we're up here living in space.

— Anne McClain

It's not a matter of if we're going to go to Mars, it's a matter of when.

— Anne McClain

Army astronauts have a very proud legacy in the astronaut program.

— Anne McClain

People are genuinely interested about what it's like to experience spaceflight and try to get some of our perspectives on it.

— Anne McClain

Every day is a good day when you're floating. Your whole life you spend walking around Earth and then all of a…

— Anne McClain

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.

— Anne McClain

Gravity is a really heavy force and you don't realize how heavy it is until you haven't felt it for six and…

— Anne McClain

I remember riding the Space Needle and going up in the elevator and being scared, but thinking, 'This is going to be…

— Anne McClain

Something about exploration has fascinated me from a young age.

— Anne McClain

Up in space we don't have a huge wardrobe.

— Anne McClain

My heart would race when I went to Pacific Science Center because I would pretend to be an astronaut, and now I…

— Anne McClain

No matter what your passion is, you really can find it within the Army. The opportunities really are endless and the sky…

— Anne McClain

Our bodies are the subject of many experiments, but these experiments on the space station sometimes take years because in order for…

— Anne McClain

You get this overview effect where you realize how small we are and how fragile our planet is and how we're really…

— Anne McClain

The most uncomfortable thing about going to space is coming home. It's a little strange to get used to gravity again.

— Anne McClain

When you are finally in space and you're finally looking back at Earth and you realize for the first time in your…

— Anne McClain