Air Quote by Kathleen Rubins

One of the things I think is really cool that we're testing on board the International Space Station is the water reclamation system.

— Peggy Whitson

The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a sailboat: privacy…

— Chris Hadfield

It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice…

— Mark Kelly

The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the…

— Rose George

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

If I hadn't been inside of Biosphere 2 and really lived a biological life-support system, I definitely would not be involved in life-support systems…

— Jane Poynter

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be…

— David Korten

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

— Caleb Scharf

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts

— Philippe Perrin

“The "old school" of wastewater treatment, still embraced by most government regulators and many academics, considers water to be a vehicle for the routine…

— Joseph C. Jenkins

If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is no waste.…

— Ken Yeang

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

— David R. Brower