Anne McClain

Astronaut

1979-06-07

Anne McClain is an American astronaut and U.S. Army officer selected by NASA in 2013. She has flown long-duration missions to the International Space Station and has completed multiple spacewalks.

Quotes by Anne McClain

The astronaut corps is a very small part of a very large team that enables human spaceflight.
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With so much conflict in the world, space exploration can be a beacon of hope.
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No one cares about race or religion or nationality in space travel. We're all just part of Team Human.
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Every day is a good day when you're floating. Your whole life you spend walking around Earth and then all of a sudden you get to fly like you've dreamed of.
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Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.
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When something looks really risky from the outside, what people are doing on the inside - they're not professional risk takers. But they're probably professional risk mitigators.
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We're using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in space and hit some of our deep-space exploration goals.
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I remember riding the Space Needle and going up in the elevator and being scared, but thinking, 'This is going to be like going up a launch tower,' and so I would sit there and try to face that fear.
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Sometimes we focus too much on our differences, but when we all look up into space, we see the same stars and we see the same sun. It really can be unifying.
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When you are finally in space and you're finally looking back at Earth and you realize for the first time in your life there's nothing standing between you and your dream, it's just so hard to describe the profound impact of that.
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You kind of just float inside of your sleeping bag and you attach your sleeping bag to the wall. Then our arms kind of float up. So, we look a little bit like zombies.
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