Laurel Clark

“Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars look different out here. But I'm loving the work up here. It's a huge challenge, but it's a lot of fun.”

“There was a beautiful quote in the paper the other day, so I'm going to steal it: 'Life continues in a lot of places, and life is a magical thing.'”

“The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you can imagine being on top of a very tall mountain and you can see a coastline and you can see a sunset, and you can see the stars and you can see the moon... it's just a spectacular, very peaceful, and wonderful feeling.”

“I have the best of all worlds. I'm seeing the most beautiful sights, both on the Earth and in the heavens.”

“There's a lot of different science that's happening on the mission. The international partners have experiments, and we have experiments from all over the country.”

“It was a great ride up... It was a gorgeous launch.”

“The water experiments here are pretty neat. There's a lot of things that float in space that you don't expect. I can spend a lot of time just watching the water behave.”