Home / Quotes / Quote by Mike Mullane

Quote by Mike Mullane

“NASA's training philosophy is "no surprises." So what they did is put a simulator on Earth where it looks exactly the same as a shuttle toilet and they put a camera down in the bottom of the opening for solid-waste collection, with a light that basically illuminates your asshole.”

Quote by Mike Mullane

Author

Mike Mullane, born on September 10, 1945, is an accomplished American astronaut. He served as a pilot for NASA and participated in several space missions. more

You May Also Like

“You can't put toilet paper in the toilet [in the space ship], so there's a separate vacuum can in front of you on the wall and when you're done, you put the toilet paper in there and seal that up.”

Done Space Fronts Wall Paper Ships Toilets Vacuums Seals Toilet Paper

Author:Mike Mullane

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

“The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.”

Ifs Giving Earth Fall Wish Stars Waste Astronaut Dump Overboard Solid Waste

Author:Mike Mullane

“And you're headed to a place with no bath and no shower. So you can just imagine how crazy it is to get up there, take your diaper off, have a urine-soaked crotch, and all you can do is wet a washcloth and wipe your skin off. You also have to do it on landing and spacewalks, too. It's not a ride that makes you springtime fresh.”

Can Do Imagine Crazy Skins Get Up Wet Showers Baths Wipe Springtime Landing Diapers

Author:Mike Mullane

“In weightlessness, one of the physiological changes is a fluid shift. Your blood and fluid is equally distributed in your body. So that makes your calves and thighs and waist skinnier, and it makes your chest and women's breasts broader. The downside is your face is kind of puffy”

Kind Body Faces Blood Your Body Breasts Chests Your Face Fluid Thighs Calves Physiological Weightlessness

Author:Mike Mullane

“If you look at astronauts closely, their eyes look kind of puffy. And it gives you this mild headache. But one of the advantages of that, if you will.”

Ifs Giving Looks Kind Eye Advantage Astronaut Headache

Author:Mike Mullane

“In the space shuttle program, where we had males and females, I can tell you that nobody was doing that [sex] because there's absolutely no privacy. The only privacy would have been in the air lock, but everybody would know what you were doing. You're not out there doing a spacewalk. There's no reason to be in there.”

Knows Has Beens I Can Reason Sex Space Air Female Program Males Privacy No Reason Locks Doing You Space Shuttle Shuttle Program

Author:Mike Mullane

“Earning my college degree. It was a promise I made to my parents. I understand that football is only a certain time in my life, and my degree will help me sustain my life well past football. I was so proud of that, and the amount of work I put into it.”

Wells Made Helping Past Certain Parent Football College Amount Proud Promise Degrees Help Me Earning College Degree

Author:Marcus Mariota

“I always took note of them, because I think if you're in the black or brown body, you're negotiating them all the time. It's like women taking note of sexism. It's a kind of incoherency that you are constantly negotiating.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Body Black Notes Brown Sexism Negotiating

Author:Claudia Rankine

“I was really interested in the fact that blacks have high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes at a higher percentage than the rest of the population. That didn't stay very aggressively in the book, but that's how it started. I began to document these moments as support for this other thing I was thinking about, and then the moments themselves began to take over.”

Thinking Heart Book Moments Facts Support Blood Higher Disease Pressure Population Documents Percentages Diabetes Heart Disease Blood Pressure High Blood Pressure

Author:Claudia Rankine