25 Quotes by Bill Shepherd

When you ride a good rocket ship to orbit, you have a lot to be thankful for.

We really had to load ourselves down on the treadmill. Running on it was not a lot of fun but I think we're all glad that we did it now that we're back on the Earth.

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.

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

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

I think the most surprising thing about space was how readily humans can adapt to it.

I think the biggest issue for NASA and for the Russian Space Agency and other folks... (is) everybody has to accept some cultural change to make this happen. It's probably the biggest problem in front of us and it's probably one of the hardest things we have got to go work on.

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.