Weightlessness Quotes

Gravity on Earth provides a force that keeps our bones and muscles working. In the microgravity of space, our bones and muscles are not taxed, so they begin to atrophy.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

The thought of being in space, and kind of enclosed, I find would be very claustrophobic. I think I would panic in that situation.

It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.

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

Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the time by yourself, and your organs, and your head. Your arms weigh down your shoulders. In space simulation, you get to fly like Superman! You're hanging in the air! It's the coolest thing.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight.

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

Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!

After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth.

I thought I was prepared for space, and it still absolutely defied every expectation and dream. It is an incredible thing to put yourself on a rocket and launch off the planet. It is an amazing thing to see the planet from space. This blue sphere is almost indescribably beautiful.

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

When you lift off, the pressure is supposed to be maximum. But actually, it was very benign. Very enjoyable. But as soon as the engines cut off and you get to zero gravity, you felt as if you were being pushed off your seat. You feel disoriented. You don't feel aligned with anything. I felt for a few good hours that I was falling.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

The strangest thing I've found is that when I got to space, I felt more comfortable in space that I've ever been on Earth before. I just felt this is my home.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.