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International Space Station Quotes

We’ve collected the best International Space Station Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Sunita Williams, Rose George, Peggy Whitson, Alan G. Poindexter, Ellen Ochoa. Use them as an inspiration.

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Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren’t that much closer. Our home, the International Space Station, orbits around the Earth at about 200 miles.
Sunita Williams
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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 luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.
Rose George
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I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.
Peggy Whitson
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We certainly would not be here, living and working on the International Space Station without the commitment and dedication of all the folks who worked the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Programs as well as the Russian Space Program.
Sunita Williams
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I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It’s been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.
Alan G. Poindexter
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The International Space Station is a great place to live for a year.
Sunita Williams
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We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.
Ellen Ochoa
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I think that my career and perhaps me being on the International Space Station can really show women and girls and everybody that hey, we’re not just sitting at the table, we’re leading the table.
Anne McClain
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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
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Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour – understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.
Martin Rees
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I’m a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!
Brian Blessed
12
I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
Buzz Aldrin
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If someone offered me a free trip to the International Space Station, I would decline. I like Earth. I like the internet. I like Diet Coke. I have cats. I write about brave people – I’m not one of them.
Andy Weir
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While we’ve taken seeds into space, and astronauts on the International Space Station have eaten lettuce they’ve grown, we haven‘t produced fruit in space, so we can’t pollinate something.
Helen Sharman
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There is a project that’s underway called the interplanetary Internet. It’s in operation between Earth and Mars. It’s operating on the International Space Station. It’s part of the spacecraft that’s in orbit around the Sun that’s rendezvoused with two planets.
Vint Cerf
16
Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space.
Marc Garneau
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CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.
Alan Stern
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The building of the International Space Station is something wonderful, and it will show us how to take the next step beyond low-Earth orbit.
Gregory H. Johnson
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Donald Trump‘s administration is floating a proposal to return to the moon – and to shut down the International Space Station to help pay for it. The first part of this idea is good. The second is horrible.
Leroy Chiao
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Finally my dream came true in that there was a possibility that I could travel to the International Space Station. I’ve gone through the medicals and the training and now I’m officially, by the Russian Space Federation, a cosmonaut in training.
Sarah Brightman
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It’s an international space station. We have crew members from both the U.S. and Russia and now the United Kingdom with Tim Peake from the U.K… It’s great to see that, on this space station, that we can work across cultures in a very cooperative way.
Scott Kelly
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It’s – I mean, the Olympics, what is it? It’s an international competition to foster friendship and – and competition across – across the planet, and I think that’s exactly what the International Space Station is.
Sunita Williams
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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 team, unity aboard that space station, we can accomplish great things.
Gene Kranz
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When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.
Charles Platt
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If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations – as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.
Neil deGrasse Tyson