Chris Hadfield Quotes

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 playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

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 category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

There's really just one thing I can control: my attitude during the journey, which is what keeps me feeling steady and stable, and what keeps me headed in the right direction. So I consciously monitor and correct, if necessary, because losing attitude would be far worse than not achieving my goal.

In all of the movie portrayals, a spacewalking suit seems sort of insignificant, like a pair of shorts and a T-shirt. No one thinks much about it. But it's a spaceship, not a spacesuit, an entire life-support mechanism that's incredibly complex and cumbersome. It's very difficult to put on and off. You have to run it the whole time you are wearing it, and it redefines how you move. It's like if you put on a wetsuit and a snowmobile suit and froze yourself solid and then tried to go and do work.

The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It's time we build a rocket and go to stay.

I'm not a wealthy person and I don't think that I would be able to prioritize that much money to go for a ride to a place that I have already lived. But if the price comes down or I win a lottery or something, why not?

As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.

Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.

By looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, you can fundamentally change your reaction.

Doing a space walk. It is one of the most rare human experiences. To leave your spaceship and go outside, so that you are alone in the universe with Earth distant and the universe around you. That is amazing.