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

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

Scott Kelly

This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth.

Scott Kelly

I think a good life-work balance is important, and that's even more important in some cases on the space station.

Scott Kelly

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.

Scott Kelly

Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

Scott Kelly

I'm actually thinking about maybe, on a spacewalk, not wearing my glasses. I normally wear those both for reading and a little bit of a distance correction, but the distance vision seems like it's gotten a little bit better. So I might go without.

Scott Kelly

It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death.

Scott Kelly

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

Scott Kelly

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

Scott Kelly

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.

Scott Kelly

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.

Scott Kelly

When I look at the clouds over the Earth, and I know how high clouds are, I get a sense we are really, really far above those clouds. I wouldn't call it scary, but I am aware I am in space.

Scott Kelly

My dad worked nights mostly and while we were growing up, and my mother also worked, so there were times where, when it was just the two of us at home, and, you know, they gave us a pretty long leash, actually.

Scott Kelly

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.

Scott Kelly

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.

Scott Kelly

The majority of astronauts have to change their eyeglasses while in space. They bring eyeglasses with them and typically change a few months into the mission.

Scott Kelly

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.

Scott Kelly

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.

Scott Kelly

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

Scott Kelly

I would always consider flying in space again, without a question.

Scott Kelly

I feel more like an environmentalist since I've been up here. There are parts of the Earth that are covered with pollution all the time. I saw weather that was unexpected. Storms bigger than we've seen in the past. This is a human effect. This is not a natural phenomenon.

Scott Kelly

I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.

Scott Kelly

What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy.

Scott Kelly

There's a lot of work to do - not only the science but maintaining the facilities up here. When you go down from a crew of six to a crew of three, obviously you've lost half of your crew time available, so it does have an impact. But it's an impact we plan for.

Scott Kelly

My career with the Navy and NASA gave me an incredible chance to showcase public service to which I am dedicated, and what we can accomplish on the big challenges of our day.

Scott Kelly

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.

Scott Kelly

Adjusting to space is easier than adjusting to Earth for me.

Scott Kelly

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.

Scott Kelly

Now, 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.

Scott Kelly

I would say that as a government employee, I am subject to the Hatch Act.

Scott Kelly

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

Scott Kelly

There are parts of the Earth that are covered with pollution all the time. I saw weather that was unexpected. Storms bigger than we've seen in the past. This is a human effect. This is not a natural phenomenon.

Scott Kelly

Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.

Scott Kelly

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

Scott Kelly

A lot of the data we collect is stuff that has to be analyzed on the ground. For instance, we can't see, you know, bone loss. Our cells, you know, that's something that we'll have to notice with imaging technology when I get back.

Scott Kelly

We used to have a crew of three on board the space station and even at one time a crew of two people, so it's something we can adjust to.

Scott Kelly