A biography for Anne McClainhasn’t been written yet.
“I still feel inside like a little kid from Spokane with a dream.”
“You kind of just float inside of your sleeping bag and you attach your sleeping bag to the wall. Then our arms kind of float up. So, we look a little bit like zombies.”
“I'm looking forward to getting to space, looking back to earth out the copula window. I think all of it is going to be a completely new experience that I can't quite predict.”
“I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.”
“I encourage all humans to do something out of your comfort zone that forces you to adapt. You'll be pleasantly surprised of your capabilities.”
“When something looks really risky from the outside, what people are doing on the inside - they're not professional risk takers. But they're probably professional risk mitigators.”
“Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.”
“It's really amazing how the human mind and body can adapt to new environments. How the once incredible can become so normal.”
“I grew up in Spokane, Washington, and I can't recall ever not wanting to be an astronaut.”
“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.”
“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 hardest part about this business is being away from the kids. But what I hope to teach him - and what I hope to teach all kids that are kind of looking at this - is that to achieve anything, it takes a lot of sacrifice.”
“In the future we're going to have interplanetary, we're going to have two planets that human beings are living on.”
“You get this overview effect where you realize how small we are and how fragile our planet is and how we're really all in it together. You don't see borders from space, you don't see diversity and differences in people on Earth.”
“In space, everything is dependent on everything else and one hiccup causes a lot of ripple effects.”
“I joined the Army out of a deep sense of duty, but wanting to be an astronaut feels more like my destiny.”
“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.”
“Sometimes we focus too much on our differences, but when we all look up into space, we see the same stars and we see the same sun. It really can be unifying.”
“People are genuinely interested about what it's like to experience spaceflight and try to get some of our perspectives on it.”
“No one cares about race or religion or nationality in space travel. We're all just part of Team Human.”