Construction Quote by Leroy Chiao

One thing to say about doing maintenance in space - it is difficult because the parts and pieces float away. You end up using…

— Sunita Williams

When any part of the Station is moved from its designated location to do a repair, we really risk losing things.

— Sunita Williams

Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a very important role in the…

— Philippe Perrin

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 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

I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on…

— Peggy Whitson

Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific…

— John L. Phillips

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I…

— Philippe Perrin

And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and…

— Chris Hadfield

“When we perform maintenance, we have to find and change the representations of things—those capsules of knowledge embedded in the application. The problem is…

— Andrew Hunt

Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really…

— Umberto Guidoni

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

— Richard Whately