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" My career with the Navy and NASA gave me an incredible chance to showcase public service to which I am dedicated, and what we can accomplish on the big challenges of our day. "

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" 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. "

Scott Kelly

Time

Same

Think

" I would always consider flying in space again, without a question. "

" What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy. "

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

" I feel more like an environmentalist since I've been up here. 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. "

" 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

Journey

Deep

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My dad worked nights mostly and while we were growing up, and my mother also worked, so there were times where, when it was just the two of us at home, and, you know, they gave us a pretty long leash, actually. "

Scott Kelly

Home

Mother

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The space station here is a magical place and an incredible science facility. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The calluses on your feet in space will eventually fall off. So, the bottoms of your feet become very soft like newborn baby feet. But the top of my feet develop rough alligator skin because I use the top of my feet to get around here on space station when using foot rails. "

" I think what most people miss, and what I missed last time, are the people that are important in your life. You know, the relationships you have with people on the ground. "

" On this flight, my fourth spaceflight, I also became the record holder for total days in space and single longest mission. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Your arms don't hang by your side in space like they do on Earth because there is no gravity. It feels awkward to have them floating in front of me. "

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

" We have a lot of systems here on board the space station, and we can't call a repair man when one of them breaks. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Just like the bones and muscles, the heart is designed to work in one gravity here on Earth, so when you put the heart in space, it operates differently and changes shape. "

" 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. "