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But thanks to the International Space Station, we’re able to study the effects of weightlessness and develop countermeasures in orbit, close to Earth.
There was a point where I was just saying to myself, breathe. Inhale, because I felt really heavy – I felt like those cartoons when they experience G and your face is just sagging down.
Before I go and even get in an airplane to go on a flight, I say a prayer, and I always think about my family.
The thought of flying here and rocketing out, it’s just surreal, it really is. I wake up and I go, ‘I really am at Kennedy Space Center.’
The only thing I’m afraid of is not coming home to my family.
I’m excited just to go to space.
You don’t pass up a ride to space.
Resilience is one of the most important aspects in this business and exploration period.
I like a venti black coffee, no room for cream or sugar.
I think we all need to be able to dream in all colors.
But floating for an extended period is truly amazing. My brain is constantly trying to figure out which way is up. It’s an interesting challenge, one I find slightly amusing.
Seeing Earth from here is quite spectacular, and it also makes me realize how important it is that we do all that we can to take care of it.
Flying has been such an important part of my professional life and I love to do it.
In a fighter, you can’t hold 4 G’s for several minutes, not most aircraft. I’ve been able to feel that for a few seconds. But to have that for an extended period was just truly amazing.
I’ve seen tons of pictures. But when I first looked out the window at the Earth, it’s hard to describe. There are no words.
As we address extreme weather and pandemic disease, we will understand and overcome racism and bigotry so we can safely and together do space.
6,400 feet, that’s the highest up I’ve ever been above the ground and so to get to a point beyond that, that’ll be a little special moment.
I have no misgivings about using a flight computer.
People watched launches and tears ran down their faces, and then their kids would go jump into an encyclopedia or look online and read about rocket science. That’s power.
Launch and entry are such unique experiences.
By magnifying and analyzing your missteps, you learn faster.
I’ve been receiving a lot of emails and messages from folks that say, ‘Hey, my kid saw you and they’re so excited and it’s great that he can look at the NASA TV broadcast and see someone that looks like him,’ and I think that’s important.
For most of us, the thought of traveling to another galaxy probably seems like science fiction. But the truth is, the foundation for humankind’s journey beyond Earth’s solar system is being laid right now aboard our very own International Space Station.
Keep your world small, keep your focus on the thing right in front of you and slowly widen out that world-view.
In Corpus Christi in 2000 I did primary flight training, and for all of 2001 I was in Kingsville for advanced flight training, and that’s where I learned to fly jets.
My family on the ground is definitely in my thoughts and in my prayers, and on my socks.
I studied engineering at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, and between my junior and senior years I actually joined the Navy, while I was still in college.
God doesn’t really have to have a concern for my patriotism, but I am an American, and we were blessed to be born in America.
As we’ve grown our family, that’s really when I’ve started to develop a real, true appreciation of my own faith and not just the academic.
It truly is a privilege to work and to live here, and to be able to do both makes this just a really unique experience. And so as the only rookie in the group, it was really an honor to become a part of an expedition and see what it’s like to fly the International Space Station.
