Chris Hadfield Quotes (12 Quotes)

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

When I was nine, I wanted to be an astronaut but at that time there weren't any Canadian astronauts. You had to be American or Soviet. So many things will be possible in your lifetimes.

I think Canada in general should be very proud of our capabilities. We are absolute world leaders in space robotics,

And then when we assembled it, the mechanism, which was built in Russia, just worked exactly like everybody said, so it was letter perfect.

So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.

Now picture Sasha floating freely in space and she wanted to go to sleep.

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

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

That's how we ended up providing those things, not by some sort of graciousness, but because of our raw ability and proven track record and they worked perfectly.

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

It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.

When we needed a long extension on the Canadarm 1 in order to be able to inspect the outside plus sensors on the end, NASA ... looked through the whole world for who had the best capability and the most promising ability to build something and Canada won.