Space Activities Quotes

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing.

There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.

The communications delays between Earth and Mars can be half an hour or more, so the people on the ground can't participate minute by minute in Mars surface activities.

You have a lot of things to do when you're out on a space walk, and that sort of overwhelms your mind.

We're fortunate to have football on the space station.

The most fun to do in the weightlessness is going down the ladder headfirst, walking on the ceiling, chasing after M&M's that you throw up into the air - they're just bouncing around all over the place and you go around like a fish eating them. I often tell kids that when you go into space and experience weightlessness, the serious adult in you gives way to the child you used to be, who had imagination, who had no bounds on what was possible.

CSF and its members believe strongly in the exploration of space of all kinds, including commercial purposes.