As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind – every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest.
I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody’s ever been.