As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of... -Chris Hadfield

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

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Retired Canadian astronaut and engineer, the first Canadian to command the International Space Station (ISS).

Chris Hadfield Quotes to Explore

We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was - I'd already been an astronaut for a decade when t...
When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together l...
For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a cat...
I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station p...
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting ...
The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silen...
There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to ge...
As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes....
I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice....
The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the o...

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I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launc...
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We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was - I'd already been an astronaut for a decade when t...
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't ...
People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has ...
When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work....
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans....
After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is...
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I've had a lot of experience with not allowing myself to experience certain emotions, like anger and confidence, and with acting you're in this space ...