Leroy Chiao famous quotes

04-17-2025

As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Congratulations #Littles #Responsible
One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Space #People #One Day
I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Russia #Interesting #Chinese
I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Space #Important #Flight
Space is very unforgiving business
-- Leroy Chiao

#Space #Unforgiving
Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Space #Energy #Demand
I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Long #Waiting #Trying
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Strong #Engineering #Careers
I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Flying
Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Running #Order #Space
Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Hurt #Different #Able
I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Country #Thinking #Leader
My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole lifeâ€”to stay fit and feel good.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Running #Ambition #Past
One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Wall #Eye #Challenges
I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.
-- Leroy Chiao

#Space #Would Be #Exploration

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