The workouts have positively impacted the astronauts’ bones and muscles, and they are coming back in really good shape. But some are losing bone and muscle but not as much as we saw in the early days. – Scott Kelly
We would go in there with our parents once in a while for – actually go into Manhattan for dinner, weekends occasionally to a museum, but most of my memories of traveling into Manhattan was with the school trips and then later on as we got, you know, into high school, kind of on our own and with friends. – Scott Kelly
Space has its own unique smell. So whenever a vehicle docks, or if guys are out doing a spacewalk, the smell of space when you open up the hatch is very distinct. It’s kind of like a burning-metal smell, if you can imagine what that would smell like. – Scott Kelly
There’s a lot of work to do – not only the science but maintaining the facilities up here. When you go down from a crew of six to a crew of three, obviously you’ve lost half of your crew time available, so it does have an impact. But it’s an impact we plan for. – Scott Kelly
I don’t mean to say it’s not fresh on the space station, but there’s nothing like new, cold air coming into the capsule. – Scott Kelly
When we do things that are really hard, we can achieve great things – and that has worked as a great model for me. – Scott Kelly
If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation. – Scott Kelly
We don’t do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water’s at a premium up here. Plus, it’d be pretty complicated, I think, to make a space washer, although I guess you could do it. – Scott Kelly
The thing I like most about flying in space is not the view. The thing I like about it is doing something I feel very, very strongly about. – Scott Kelly
I personally think going to Mars, if it takes two years or two and a half years, that’s doable. Certainly, the first people who go there, that’s going to be a big motivator, being first getting to Mars. – Scott Kelly
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. – Scott Kelly
It’s for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to. – Scott Kelly
We don’t do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water’s at a premium up here. Plus, it’d be pretty complicated, I think, to make a space washer, although I guess you could do it. So we generally throw our clothes out. I think I’ve been wearing this pair of pants for about two months. – Scott Kelly
Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin. – Scott Kelly
As far as the sounds on the space station, it’s pumps, fans, motors, certain modules are louder than others, but it’s generally a pretty nice working environment. It’s not too loud or too smelly. – Scott Kelly
The planet will get better; it’s us that won’t be here because we’ll destroy the environment. – Scott Kelly
What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it’s as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that’s in the military with some kind of technical background. – Scott Kelly
If we’re going to go farther from Earth, to Mars or somewhere else someday, we have to have a good understanding of the psychological impact on people. And not only psychologically, but how it affects their cognition. We’re doing a lot of research on my cognitive abilities. – Scott Kelly
We used to have a crew of three on board the space station and even at one time a crew of two people, so it’s something we can adjust to. – Scott Kelly
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. – Scott Kelly
A lot of the data we collect is stuff that has to be analyzed on the ground. For instance, we can’t see, you know, bone loss. Our cells, you know, that’s something that we’ll have to notice with imaging technology when I get back. – Scott Kelly
I’ve flown in space four times now, so it’s going to be hard in that respect, but I certainly look forward to going back to Earth. I’ve been up here for a really long time and sometimes, when I think about it, I feel like I’ve lived my whole life up here. – Scott Kelly
There are definitely parts of Asia, Central America that when you look at them from space, you’re always looking through a haze of pollution. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, and being able to see the surface, you know, I would say definitely those areas that I mentioned look kind of sick. – Scott Kelly
I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that. – Scott Kelly
We do a lot of science on the space station. Over the course of the year, there’ll be 400 to 500 different investigations in all different kinds of disciplines. Some are related to improving life on earth in material science, physics, combustion science, earth sciences, medicine. – Scott Kelly
What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy. – Scott Kelly
There are parts of the Earth that are covered with pollution all the time. I saw weather that was unexpected. Storms bigger than we’ve seen in the past. This is a human effect. This is not a natural phenomenon. – Scott Kelly
The majority of astronauts have to change their eyeglasses while in space. They bring eyeglasses with them and typically change a few months into the mission. – Scott Kelly