Best Chris Hadfield Sayings
- It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and… Babies
- When you have some skills but don't fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be a plus one. At best, you can… Bad
- Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad.… End
- It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but… Almost Comical
- For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is… Been
- When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we… Always Stay
- My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere… Airline
- The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you can invite people… All
- Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, that was human emotion and people, unscripted,… Brand
- The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average… Average
- Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object. Becomes
- Think about what happens on Earth when you throw up. You throw up and you have a bag of something horrible and then you throw… Bag
- Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs. Astronaut
- Airline food is cooked in an oven and then kept warm. Space station food is often cooked in an oven and then thermo-stabilised, irradiated or… Airline
- While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summaries, and I would scan headlines… Connection
- I watched the first people walk on the moon, and to me, it was just an obvious thing - I want to somehow turn myself… Danger
- When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once… Continents
- It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they… All
- I once made myself black out by pulling G too quickly while flying an F-18. Being unconscious in a single-seat airplane is not good. Fortunately,… Airplane
- The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too, and has some… Advantages
- You can get claustrophobia and agoraphobia - a fear of wide, open spaces - simultaneously on a spacewalk. Agoraphobia
- As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes. Astronaut
- Although simulators are great for building step-by-step knowledge of a procedure, the worst thing that can happen in a sim is that you get a… Bad
- I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no… Accomplish
- And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian. Astronaut