203 Quotes by Chris Hadfield

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

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.

Although simulators are great for building step-by-step knowledge of a procedure, the worst thing that can happen in a sim is that you get a bad grade on your performance.

It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water.

It's a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It's much riskier than staying indoors. It's complex. It uses up a lot of the precious resources onboard. It uses up oxygen. It uses up carbon dioxide scrubbers.

It's beautiful to see the Big Arm moving the pallet around, ... Big relief.

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

I once made myself black out by pulling G too quickly while flying an F-18. Being unconscious in a single-seat airplane is not good. Fortunately, I woke up in time. I learned how to better plug-in my anti-G suit.