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" 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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" 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

Flying

Medical

Focus

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We've got to get rid of the stuff on the space station somehow. So we do have a pretty significant capability to bring back stuff on SpaceX that you might not imagine. "

" I think anyone that's in the same building or the same place for a really long period of time, some parts of it become routine. "

" 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. "

" Flying in space is a privilege, whether it's the first time or the fourth time. "

" 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. "

" I believe in the importance of flying in space and the research that we do. "

" 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. "

" When I look at the clouds over the Earth, and I know how high clouds are, I get a sense we are really, really far above those clouds. I wouldn't call it scary, but I am aware I am in space. "

" By going to Mars one day, we will make things better for us here on Earth. "

" There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel. "

" Me, personally, I was a Mets and Giants fan. "

Scott Kelly

Giants

Personally

" I'll never be done with space. I will always be involved. "

" 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. "

" Adjusting to space is easier than adjusting to Earth for me. "

Scott Kelly

Space

Than

" It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do. "

" As far as whether there is life there on Mars or whether there was actually ever life there, I don't know. It would be great to find out, though. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Great Things

Hard

" The ride to orbit was impressive, as it always is. But once I got on board the space station, it really felt like I was visiting an old home; it felt very comfortable. "

" 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. "

" Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I would say that as a government employee, I am subject to the Hatch Act. "

" People do really well on space missions, but it's the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It's those things that we need to figure out. "

" 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. "