The more I look at Earth and certain parts of Earth, the more I feel more of an environmentalist, there are definitely areas where the Earth is covered with pollution almost all the time and it’s not good for any of us. Astronaut Scott Kelly More Quotes by Astronaut Scott Kelly More Quotes From Astronaut Scott Kelly These are the glasses that launched with me and I never lost them in space, this is more of a miracle because stuff just floats away up there. Astronaut Scott Kelly top-news The most overwhelming part of it is gravity itself and I still haven't gotten over it completely. Astronaut Scott Kelly top-news There are challenges that we have to meet, like the radiation issues, maybe we have a propulsion system that gets us there faster - I think we know enough and we’re close enough. Astronaut Scott Kelly science Even though I had a shower in Canada, I hadn’t had running water for 340 days, we make do with not having a shower on board [the space station] – I definitely feel like I would like jump in a pool. Astronaut Scott Kelly science I think going to Mars, if it takes two years or two-and-a-half years, that’s doable, the first people that go there, that will be a big motivation, to be the first people that go to Mars. Astronaut Scott Kelly science This genetic-based research is new for us, so that for me is very exciting. Astronaut Scott Kelly science My level of muscle soreness and fatigue is worse than last time. Astronaut Scott Kelly science I think that VR has a lot of potential. Astronaut Scott Kelly science I ’d like for the legacy of this flight to be that we can decide to do hard things and hard things that will take us further away from the Earth and this is one of them, i ’m hopeful and I think we will learn a lot about longer duration space flight and how that will take us to Mars someday. So, I would like to think this is another of many stepping stones to us landing on Mars some time in our future. Astronaut Scott Kelly science Even after nearly a year, you don’t feel perfectly normal, there’s always a lingering something you feel. It’s just not normal. Astronaut Scott Kelly science We actually return garbage on the SpaceX too, 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. Astronaut Scott Kelly health-news We checked them to make sure that they were still going to protect us if we needed to use them, we have some kind of on-orbit training that covers the descent procedures, so we're fresh with those. We talked to the specialists on the ground about all operations from the time we close the hatch until the time we get pulled out of the Soyuz. So, it's a pretty busy time. It's important, clearly, when you're coming back from space that we get everything right. Astronaut Scott Kelly health-news This past summer you could notice the drought in California clearly and the fires, today we had this incredible pass over the Himalayas, and to just see all that pollution that's just kind of riding up against those mountains from the south, it's kind of heartbreaking to see that. Astronaut Scott Kelly health-news I'm looking down at the Earth right now and it's 250 miles below me, and only a small portion of that is the atmosphere, and when that Soyuz hits that atmosphere going 17,500 miles an hour, a lot of things have to happen just right to make sure we touch down and parachute safely. So when you look at that big space between us and the speed involved, it's pretty serious. And it's something that you definitely think about and consider. But it's my second time flying the Soyuz, my fourth time flying in space. It's something I signed up to do, and we'll be ready for it next Tuesday. Astronaut Scott Kelly health-news Leaving this amazing facility is going to be tough because I'll probably never see it again, and I don't expect I will. Astronaut Scott Kelly health-news There were a lot of parallels with that movie to living in space for a long period of time, including growing things in an extreme environment, which we recently finished up doing. Astronaut Scott Kelly health-news
