Chris Hadfield Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.”

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

“No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.”

“Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.”

“To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.”

“You can get claustrophobia and agoraphobia - a fear of wide, open spaces - simultaneously on a spacewalk.”

“Airline food is cooked in an oven and then kept warm. Space station food is often cooked in an oven and then thermo-stabilised, irradiated or dehydrated and then stored for a year or two before you even get to it.”

“I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.”

“I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.”

“In the late '60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space Race.”