Scott Kelly Quotes

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

From day one, I have been told I am no different from the male astronauts. As a pilot, I flew in the sky. Now that I am an astronaut, I will fly in space.

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.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

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.

I was the 128th human in space. So I didn't really sweat about it.

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.

So you're back from outer space.

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

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

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 would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.

In 2009 I went up on the space shuttle. I was in space for 16 days and docked at the space station for 11 days. The entire crew did five space walks, of which I was involved with three of them. When you're doing a space walk, you always have a buddy with you. It's a very dangerous environment when you're doing a space walk.

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

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

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.

Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'