Leroy Chiao

One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

— Leroy Chiao

I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.

— Leroy Chiao

Space is very unforgiving business

— Leroy Chiao

'Star Trek' was inspiring to me.

— Leroy Chiao

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

— Leroy Chiao

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

— Leroy Chiao

In order to do anything worthwhile, one must take calculated risks.

— Leroy Chiao

I don't think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about.

— Leroy Chiao

An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground.

— Leroy Chiao

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.

— Leroy Chiao

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

— Leroy Chiao

I was eight years old when I saw the Apollo moon landing in 1969. I was riveted.

— Leroy Chiao

I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following…

— Leroy Chiao

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore…

— Leroy Chiao

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights…

— Leroy Chiao

I always say getting my bachelor's was the single hardest thing I've done in my life. Once I got to university, I…

— Leroy Chiao

I was a graduate student in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan called for the construction of a new space station. I knew…

— Leroy Chiao

I'm skeptical of claims that we've been visited by aliens from another planet or other dimension, but I don't rule it out…

— Leroy Chiao

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the…

— Leroy Chiao

You might have heard about a transformation that can occur when someone first sees Earth from space - how it becomes harder…

— Leroy Chiao

It was in the back of my mind, even while I was going to school, but it wasn't until I was at…

— Leroy Chiao

Where we're operating is orbital adventures. We would offer five to seven days in low Earth orbit aboard our own spacecraft where…

— Leroy Chiao

As astronauts know better than anyone else, risks, incidents, and mishaps are inevitable in the development of any high-performance vehicle. The emergence…

— Leroy Chiao

The current market cost for a space flight, about a week in space and about six people have gone with the Russians…

— Leroy Chiao

One of the things, and the most exciting, actually definitely the most exciting thing is, having children. You know, I didn't have…

— Leroy Chiao

The thing that you worry about your first flight or any flight is some kind of a problem coming up that is…

— Leroy Chiao

The only two countries who will be able to launch people into space will be Russia and China. I've seen the Russian…

— Leroy Chiao

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their…

— Leroy Chiao

The Russians right now require a customer coming in and spending about six months or so in Russia and they have to…

— Leroy Chiao

The Americans are still the leaders in human space flight. I feel we have a danger here of kind of stagnating. We're…

— Leroy Chiao

I was an eight-year-old kid when I watched the first Apollo Moon Landing way back in 1969 and there was something about…

— Leroy Chiao

The Russians have been flying long duration crews since the early '70's. And in the early days, they've ended at least two…

— Leroy Chiao

The United States, Russia, and China are the only three countries in the world that can launch astronauts into space. Mostly in…

— Leroy Chiao

Cooperating in something as visible as space exploration and space flight can only improve relations between the two countries because what happens…

— Leroy Chiao

The expense of getting into space is the rocket launch, the rocket itself. Rocket's right now, commercial rockets cost probably somewhere between…

— Leroy Chiao

I attended a big human space flight conference in Beijing and I was going as myself. And really, there weren't any NASA…

— Leroy Chiao

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

— Leroy Chiao

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

— Leroy Chiao

The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.

— Leroy Chiao

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

— Leroy Chiao