Legacy Quote by Peggy Whitson

I really believe that, in 500 years, we will still remember the International Space Station, because it will have been the first time, really…

— Julie Payette

The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing…

— Chris Hadfield

We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.

— Ellen Ochoa

We're using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in…

— Anne McClain

Space station is, it really is one of the more, if not the most, impressive technological achievement of the modern day, not only in…

— Kevin A. Ford

We've learned a lot by building the International Space Station, the good, the bad. But, the fact is is that working together as a…

— Gene Kranz

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.

— Peggy Whitson

Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only…

— Wally Schirra

I think there's going to be a very sudden shift in people's perception of the International Space Station, because suddenly it's going to look…

— Marc Garneau

Our goal is to tell people about the International Space Station. I think very rarely people look up 250 miles and think, What are…

— Soledad O'Brien