Chris Hadfield Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“When we first get to space, we feel sick. Your body is really confused. You're dizzy. Your lunch is floating around in your belly because you're floating. What you see doesn't match what you feel, and you want to throw up.”

“When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.”

“The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.”

“So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.”

“Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.”

“As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.”

“One place that I looked at a lot from space and which looks alluring is New Zealand, especially the North Island. It's a big broad valley with a river flowing through it, and you can see the wine-making dryness of the land.”

“I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.”

“I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.”

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