Between Quote by Kathleen Rubins

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

— Dikembe Mutombo

I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in…

— Anjan Sundaram

For long-duration exploration missions, NASA is looking for folks with a lot of operational, hands-on experience, people who have been in field-type situations such…

— Kathleen Rubins

Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists.…

— Corneille Ewango

I go to play for Congo now and it's a reality check. You see how it is for some people and you don't take…

— Yannick Bolasie

I'm so proud to represent my hometown on the International Space Station where we conduct scientific research that can benefit all of humankind.

— Shannon Walker

It's just this beautiful laboratory in space, and it's doing a lot of really cool things. So being up there and just being able…

— Sunita Williams

I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis,…

— Eve Ensler

“Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how…

— Siddharth Kara

When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.

— Mae Jemison

I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities.

— Nicky Oppenheimer

In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky

— Thabo Mbeki