"I feel lucky to be the guy that actually gets to go to the space station and do the work."
"I think what we're doing with the International Space Station and every space shuttle flight is exploring our boundaries. We're finding out things about ourselves. "
"It's all about pushing that knowledge frontier forward and then, and trying to do something that hasn't been done before, whether it's by a person or by a team of folks who are building the equipment that that person uses. "
"If we don't explore as a society or as a country or better yet as a species, I think at some point you lose something and you become just kind of lackluster."
"I see the kind of the future that was promised to us in the science fiction of the '50s and the '60s, the classic stuff. We're heading that way, and that's really what we get by having humans up in space."
What do you think about STS-123, the space shuttle Endeavour's mission to the International Space Station?
A fleet of special trucks helps the shuttle fleet.
The Integrated Immune experiment monitors the human immune system before, during and after spaceflight.
“As we felt the gentle nudge to our Station, Yuri called ‘SEPKA’ (contact) and Dan called, ‘The onion express has arrived!’”
I have now been back on terra firma, our home planet Earth, for about 3 months.