“It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have...” — Linda M. Godwin Quote

It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime.

Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four people rather than five or six people. So it's been busy.

UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago.

We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it will be, and that's highly important; we need to get to where the crew size is bigger.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

I don't want to do worldly cinema: 'Hold your breath, this is art.'

In my eyes, I will never be up there with the Sir Steve Redgraves and the Sir Chris Hoys of this world. It's not something that drives me; I just enjoy going to the Olympic Games. Just to be mentioned in the same breath as those people is an honour for me. I don't ever think about those kind of things.

I hope when I take my last breath I haven't got any regrets, because I am making up for lost time with my family.

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.