Leroy Chiao Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.