Peggy Whitson

The Earth is incredibly beautiful.

One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

Walking in space is absolutely the most exhilarating part of a mission. The view is just incredible.

After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

I like to say I'm determined; some people would call it stubborn. It depends on your perspective.

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.

Everything every day here on Earth is based on gravity, and you don't realize it until you don't have it anymore.

I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.

To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing.

I think probably the discoveries made by Hubble Space Telescope have been very dramatic, very amazing.

Anyone that's ever gone to space is always wanting to go back.