Army astronauts have a very proud legacy in the astronaut program.
It's really amazing how the human mind and body can adapt to new environments. How the once incredible can become so normal.
I love getting back to Spokane and certainly love being involved in everything. I would love to be able to give back, for sure.
The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.
The training flow for the space station is a year-and-a-half to two years.
In space, everything is dependent on everything else and one hiccup causes a lot of ripple effects.
We humans were built for exploration, and we were built to do it together.
We're not up here visiting space, we're up here living in space.
But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.
You can accomplish whatever you want to. You just got to throw your hat in the ring. You've got to get out there and do it.
Risk is part of our jobs.
I still feel inside like a little kid from Spokane with a dream.
In the future we're going to have interplanetary, we're going to have two planets that human beings are living on.
It's not a matter of if we're going to go to Mars, it's a matter of when.
Up in space we don't have a huge wardrobe.
I joined the Army out of a deep sense of duty, but wanting to be an astronaut feels more like my destiny.
I grew up in Spokane, Washington, and I can't recall ever not wanting to be an astronaut.
I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.
Gravity is a really heavy force and you don't realize how heavy it is until you haven't felt it for six and a half months.
