Six months Quote by Mary Roach

“If you’re an adrenaline junkie, I understand why you’d find that exciting. But I’m not, and I don’t. To me, the only good reason…

— Chris Hadfield

Gravity always sucks. It really, really does. It's a big challenge just re-adapting to feeling heavy again, you know? Even my arm feels heavy.…

— Peggy Whitson

Sometimes astronauts feel a little ill or get minor scrapes. I trained as a crew medical officer to do basic treatment.

— John M. Grunsfeld

“To the rocket scientist, you are a problem. You are the most irritating piece of machinery he or she will ever have to deal…

— Mary Roach

There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found…

— Buzz Aldrin

As an astronaut, when you're getting ready to go out of that hatch, you know that's the pinnacle of both your career and your…

— Thomas Marshburn

Exercise is very important, first of all if you think about it, especially in a long flight like a six month space flight and…

— Leroy Chiao

The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to…

— David M. Brown

You have to have a patience for exercise.

— Simon Sinek

You have a lot of things to do when you're out on a space walk, and that sort of overwhelms your mind.

— Sunita Williams

Every little girl should have a day at space camp. It took me years to grasp that space is not explored with muscle but…

— Analeigh Tipton

Mental fitness is obviously important to being an astronaut, but so it physical fitness. For example, space walks are extremely physically demanding. We train…

— Shannon Walker