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" We're fortunate to have football on the space station. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am not a great sleeper. I don't think I have ever slept 8 hours straight in the last 20 years. "

" A year is a long time to live without the human contact of loved ones, fresh air, and gravity, to name a few. "

" I don't think people have an appreciation for the work that it takes to pull these missions off, like humans living on the space station continuously for 15 years. It is a huge army of hard-working people to make it happen. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation. "

" 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. "

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

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" I believe in exploration, and I will miss being on the front lines of that endeavor. On one hand, I look forward to going home, but it's something that's been a big part of my life, and I'm going to miss it. "

" It seems like in the beginning of my flight, the space dreams were rare. And now, almost 150 days into it, the Earth dreams are more of the rare ones. "

" When we do things that are really hard, we can achieve great things - and that has worked as a great model for me. "