Peggy Whitson Quotes
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There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.
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I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.
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I think the biggest advice that I could give people is to actually try and live beyond your dreams by pushing yourself, challenging yourself to do things a little bit outside of your comfort zone.
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You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.
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I would certainly encourage young people to pursue their dreams. It isn't always an easy path, but it's worth going after. And I figure if a farmer's daughter from Iowa can become an astronaut, you can be just about anything you want to be.
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I love Italian, Mexican, Thai. Something spicy.
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Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.
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Space flight's good for age; I have a lot less wrinkles up here. It's a good place to be as you get older.
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I have been blessed with some really special crewmates. Being able to be a really integral member of the team, no matter what role I was in, was truly special.
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I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.
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We want people to continue learning new things about what space does to the human body. It's important for us to understand that and make sure when we get ready to fly to Mars that we are ready for what we're going to be exposed to.
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I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs.
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I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration.
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A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.
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My parents are the hardest-working people I ever knew: they always worked every day, all day; they had to come up with the solutions to make things work. And I think that work ethic, maybe stubbornness, single-mindedness, definitely played a role for me. I'm definitely thankful for my roots.
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Here, in low earth orbit, we're going around the earth, so we can actually use an Internet protocol phone because we have the appropriate satellites that can get those bandwidths.
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Zero gravity is such an alien environment - completely different from everything we've grown up with every single day of our lives. And it's incomprehensible how much better it was than I anticipated it would be.
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Even if my job for the day is cleaning the vents or fixing the toilet, it still feels good to be a part of the space program and advancing exploration.
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I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.
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Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be a great commercial market.
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My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.
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I like to say I'm determined; some people would call it stubborn. It depends on your perspective.
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One of the astronauts I came to admire the most is John Young.
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I think, just philosophically, we're made to explore.