Leland Melvin

“My experiences in the Astronaut Corps had taught me that you never know what will happen from day to day. It’s best to experience life as fully as possible while you have the time, health, and opportunity. •”
― Leland Melvin, Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances

“When you look at the Earth from the vantage point of space, our planet looks like a little blue marble. Seeing our world from that vantage point cognitively changes you. My orbital shift happened after breaking bread with my space station crewmates and my shuttle crewmates. it showed me how close we are as countries, as races, as a species. I marveled that on Earth we have all these distances and separations and geographic boundaries, but they vanish quickly in the weightless interior of the space station.”
― Leland Melvin, Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances