"I became infected with a new disease, a disease the medicine has not yet found a name for—the irresistible urge to reach outer space. It was a vague, not fully recognized feeling, but it remained with…"

"The sky is very dark, and the Earth is a beautiful blue planet."

"Everything was easier to perform… legs and arms weighed nothing."

"I felt very well in weightlessness, like a fish in water."

"I have always dreamed of this, since I was a child."