Laurel Clark Astronaut Quotations

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

We trained for a lot more malfunctions than any ever happen.

When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment.

I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.

We're doing a multitude of different scientific experiments on orbit on things that are only possible to be done in the space environment.

We're incredibly lucky to be able to be working where we are up above the Earth and being able to see our planet from that vantage point.

I'm expecting to have a lot of fun. I'm expecting to be tired at the end. But I'm expecting it to be the experience of my lifetime so far.