” We’re pretty interested in microbial communities on-board space stations. It’s a closed-loop system. Our water is recycled, our air is recycled. “
” There’s actually an incredible amount of parallels between working in central Congo in a remote, isolated village and doing research aboard the space station. “
” I thought I was prepared for space, and it still absolutely defied every expectation and dream. It is an incredible thing to put yourself on a rocket and launch off the planet. It is an amazing thing to see the planet from space. This blue sphere is almost indescribably beautiful. “
” We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote regions on Earth. “
” Sequencing DNA on the ISS will enable NASA to see what happens to genetic material in space in real time, rather than looking at a snapshot of DNA before launch and another snapshot of DNA after launch and filling in the blanks. “
” They say that in space, nobody can hear you scream. The first time I stepped out of the airlock, I was ready to scream – not because I was scared but because I was so excited to see the Earth below me. “
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