Leroy Chiao Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.”

“There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.”

“I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.”

“I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.”

“Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.”

“Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.”

“I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.”

“But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.”