Scott Kelly

Astronaut

1964-02-21

Books by Scott Kelly

Endurance

A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
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Quotes by Scott Kelly

I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.
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What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy.
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Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to leaving, but it is a remarkable place.
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This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth.
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There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.
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Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.
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It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death.
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During my time in orbit, I lost bone mass, my muscles atrophied, and my blood redistributed itself in my body, which strained my heart. Every day, I was exposed to ten times the radiation of a person on Earth, which will increase my risk of a fatal cancer for the rest of my life.
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When you look at the... atmosphere on the limb of the Earth, I wouldn't say it looks unhealthy, but it definitely looks very, very fragile and just kind of like this thin film, so it looks like something that we definitely need to take care of.
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It's an international space station. We have crew members from both the U.S. and Russia and now the United Kingdom with Tim Peake from the U.K... It's great to see that, on this space station, that we can work across cultures in a very cooperative way.
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The Earth is a beautiful planet. The space station is a great vantage point to observe it and share our planet in pictures. It makes you more of an environmentalist.
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