Kathleen Rubins Quotes

When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

The first time I went into space was just so much more than you could imagine or prepare yourself for.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.

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

I actually want to go up into space.

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.

It changes your perspective to be able to look out the window and see the planet. One of the thoughts that I had when I first got up here was, 'We really do live on a planet, and we are in a solar system, and we are flying through space right now.' I mean, this is something that you know, obviously, but to see the planet - it's amazing.

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

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

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I'd love to go to space. I would love to peek out a giant window and look back at the blue marble. There's no question; I'd love to do that.

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

I've wanted to go to space, really, since I was a little girl.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.