Bill Shepherd Quotes (11 Quotes)


    Survival training is one of the biggest ways that we did that. I think four years of that before we flew made us really ready for life on station and we adapted well.

    I was pretty depressed, ... But we had a couple cups of coffee and thought about it and got up the next day and life was normal again.

    He's young, so he's on one night, off another night. But when he's on, he's really surprised us with what he's capable of doing.

    So I just want to wish everybody down there happy Thanksgiving from the crew of space station Alpha.

    We're having a pretty good day in orbit. We're getting a lot done. Sergei and Yuri are doing a great job as everybody told me, and we're looking forward to a good docking tomorrow.


    This mirror allows us to look at how we do things...and we get to compare this with how other countries approach the same problem and this is hugely valuable. This will be one of the legacies of space station.

    I did miss having a shower, particularly to clean my hair up. But otherwise what we did onboard was certainly very workable.

    On behalf of the crew on Alpha, I'd like to commend Endeavour and its crew for the tremendous technical challenge and the great achievements ... I can't think of a mission that we've flown in a long time that's been a bigger challenge.

    This is the next chapter in space after a long period of Cold War. We are not competing as we were 30 years ago. Now we work together.

    We're moving toward a period where we understand how to have people living and working and being healthy in space indefinitely. There are big questions about how to do that.

    I know my wife is going to be anxious to see me. I'll be happy to get home on time if Captain Wetherbee and the Discovery crew can arrange that.


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