Leroy Chiao

Chiao, Leroy Filmography

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  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Leroy Chiao:

"The mental stress shouldn't be underplayed. When you're out there doing the work, you can't help but feel the pressure."

"With the addition of the laboratory and docking compartments [since then], the station is quite a bit bigger,"

"I think one of the big moments for me was the second EVA. Basically it was the last EVA of my career, my flying career, so it was poignant for me to look out in to the black, open space and bid space farewell."

"We've been soaking everything up in this week of transition, ... The station looks quite a bit different from the last time I was here."

"We think Mars exploration is in our future. It may be a little ways out there possibly but that's the whole essence of being human is that we'd like to explore and Mars is something we have dreamed about and set our sights on."

"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."

"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."

"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."

"One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space."

"I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well."

"Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is."

"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."

"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."

"Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction."

"There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant."

"Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy."

"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."

"But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together."

"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."

"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."