Top 33 Peggy Whitson Quotes

You see billions and billions of stars and recognize that you know some of those have planets, too, and maybe there’s life out there, and this is just one of billions of galaxies… and so it gives you this huge perspective of how far we potentially have to go for real exploration.

It’s like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

I learned to not be afraid to fix things that break.

A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.

One of the things I think is really cool that we’re testing on board the International Space Station is the water reclamation system.

One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

I don’t sing in the shower.

Space flight’s good for age; I have a lot less wrinkles up here. It’s a good place to be as you get older.

The advice I give young people is that you have to pursue something, and you have to have fun along the way.

I love Italian, Mexican, Thai. Something spicy.

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

Breaking records has never been my goal. I think it’s important that we’re continually pushing our limits and showing that we can extend beyond what we have done before.

My undergraduate, I double-majored in biology and chemistry. Biology was kind of my love.

On my first flight, I don’t know if maybe it’s a function of time, or if I was less stressed on my second flight, but just being able to tell what part of the planet we were flying over by the reflected light coming through the window – that was pretty special.

You can solve problems, but the solutions don’t always have to be elaborate or expensive.

I think the biggest advice that I could give people is to actually try and live beyond your dreams by pushing yourself, challenging yourself to do things a little bit outside of your comfort zone.

I do think space hotels are probably in our future.

One of the astronauts I came to admire the most is John Young.

Everything every day here on Earth is based on gravity, and you don’t realize it until you don’t have it anymore.

The Earth is incredibly beautiful.

There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it’s very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.

Walking in space is absolutely the most exhilarating part of a mission. The view is just incredible.

Find your passion. Because with that passion, you can do anything.

Drive and desire was something I was raised with. It became a very important part of how I’ve become.

In space for a short time, I think most people could survive that. If you’re sending an average person who’s healthy for a short period of time, I think that’s quite doable.

Here, in low earth orbit, we’re going around the earth, so we can actually use an Internet protocol phone because we have the appropriate satellites that can get those bandwidths.

It’s been fun doing interviews with the other astronauts, getting to hear: ‘Oh, that’s how he explains it’ or ‘That’s how she thinks about it.’ We work together, but we don’t necessarily share all those thoughts or ideas.

I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration.

I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.

One of the most beautiful sights is when the rim of the Earth is bright on one side, and you see this defined line of the atmosphere. You see how close and thin it is. We’ve got to be careful. We’ve got to take care of this planet.

I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I’m just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.

I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.

Unfortunately, spaceflight takes a lot of time and money.