I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.

We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

Never underestimate the value of advice from anyone, whether they are younger or older than you. Wisdom is not categorised under age

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for dinner. I was definitely a kid of the '80s, who was out and about.

It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.