Bill Shepherd Space Quotations

So I just want to wish everybody down there happy Thanksgiving from the crew of space station Alpha.

I think the most surprising thing about space was how readily humans can adapt to it.

I think the biggest issue for NASA and for the Russian Space Agency and other folks... (is) everybody has to accept some cultural change to make this happen. It's probably the biggest problem in front of us and it's probably one of the hardest things we have got to go work on.

We're moving toward a period where we understand how to have people living and working and being healthy in space indefinitely. There are big questions about how to do that.

The space station is a hood ornament , if you will, for how we need to get along in the post Cold War world,

This mirror allows us to look at how we do things...and we get to compare this with how other countries approach the same problem and this is hugely valuable. This will be one of the legacies of space station.

The first expedition on the space station requests permission to take the radio call sign Alpha,