Words matter. These are the best Anne McClain Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Fifty years after humans landed on the moon for the first time, America has driven a golden spike on the trail to new space exploration feats through the work of our commercial partner SpaceX and all of the dedicated and talented flight controllers at NASA and our international partners.
I’m looking forward to getting to space, looking back to earth out the copula window. I think all of it is going to be a completely new experience that I can’t quite predict.
It’s not a matter of if we’re going to go to Mars, it’s a matter of when.
Spaceflight gives us a chance to reflect on the context of our existence. We are reminded that we are human before any of our differences, before all of the lines are drawn that divide us.
Every day is a good day when you’re floating. Your whole life you spend walking around Earth and then all of a sudden you get to fly like you’ve dreamed of.
Sometimes we focus too much on our differences, but when we all look up into space, we see the same stars and we see the same sun. It really can be unifying.
Up in space we don’t have a huge wardrobe.
I remember riding the Space Needle and going up in the elevator and being scared, but thinking, ‘This is going to be like going up a launch tower,’ and so I would sit there and try to face that fear.
Gravity is a really heavy force and you don’t realize how heavy it is until you haven’t felt it for six and a half months.
In space, everything is dependent on everything else and one hiccup causes a lot of ripple effects.
You kind of just float inside of your sleeping bag and you attach your sleeping bag to the wall. Then our arms kind of float up. So, we look a little bit like zombies.
One of the coolest things to me about living in space was it really caused me to think about how the human body and mind can adapt to completely different environments.
Army astronauts have a very proud legacy in the astronaut program.
Everything is better when you’re floating. Every task you do is fun. You get up in the morning, get coffee, look around, and think, ‘Wow, I’m floating!’
The astronaut corps is a very small part of a very large team that enables human spaceflight.
Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I’m training in the space suit.
We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we’re going to look up at the stars and say what’s next, what’s out there?
Risk is part of our jobs.
It’s extremely humbling to look around the astronaut office, see how much experience there is, see how many lessons there are to learn and it’s truly starting at square one.
Our bodies are the subject of many experiments, but these experiments on the space station sometimes take years because in order for a scientist to get 10 data points, that can take six or seven years.
I still feel inside like a little kid from Spokane with a dream.
People are genuinely interested about what it’s like to experience spaceflight and try to get some of our perspectives on it.
No matter what your passion is, you really can find it within the Army. The opportunities really are endless and the sky is not the limit.
But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight’s not easy.
The moon landing was such a magnificent accomplishment in U.S. space history. I think that boots on the moon was just one indicator of the rapid technology advancement and really just showed what we can do when all of us are dedicated to a single goal over a long period of time.
No one cares about race or religion or nationality in space travel. We’re all just part of Team Human.
Something about exploration has fascinated me from a young age.
I think that my career and perhaps me being on the International Space Station can really show women and girls and everybody that hey, we’re not just sitting at the table, we’re leading the table.
My favorite thing to see that I’ve been surprised at is watching the moon rises and moon sets that just move so fast it’s like it jumps off of the horizon and up and over us.
The most uncomfortable thing about going to space is coming home. It’s a little strange to get used to gravity again.
I think the more people that can go up to space and look back is great, but it’s not just this overview and look back effect. There’s also a lot of concrete gains from getting more people up in space.
When somebody says I wanted to be an astronaut my question is ‘Did you apply?’ And most people say no. And to me that’s a self-elimination.
I grew up in Spokane, Washington, and I can’t recall ever not wanting to be an astronaut.
When something looks really risky from the outside, what people are doing on the inside – they’re not professional risk takers. But they’re probably professional risk mitigators.
In the future we’re going to have interplanetary, we’re going to have two planets that human beings are living on.
