15 Quotes by Christina Koch

My mom studied biology and my dad studied chemistry and some physics and he is a physician, but he had a very strong interest in astronomy and astrophysics and exploration in general.

While you're in space, you grow in height! Without the constant force of gravity on your spine, it stretches out, and you're actually taller when you land. It doesn't last long though.

All astronauts, even civilians like me without pilot experience, have to learn how to co-pilot a jet called a T-38.

To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done.

We work together as a team. And between us and between the crew and our teams on the ground, we don't look at gender, and we don't see it as a barrier.

To see the Earth below you when we could take a break... to appreciate the environment around us was very special.