Mary Roach Quotes

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 a week, they don't have that in space.

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.

The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you can invite people on-board, which is what I worked so hard to do on social media and all the videos I made.

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

The time will come when we permit more people in space.

The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.

If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What's the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon. Outside the gravitational field of Earth, we could launch robotic spacecraft to other destinations in our solar system.

We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for America's future in space.

Life in space isn't easy. It's full of challenges that push the limits of technology, and often requires truly innovative solutions.

As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment.

I always call myself a space construction worker.