{"quotes":[{"text":"At this point I thought 'We made it,' by which I meant 'We survived.' I also was acutely aware that my childhood dream of flying into space had just come true.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["astronaut","international-space-station","iss","outer-space","space","space-flight","spaceship"],"id":1069,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"},{"text":"We essentially had to build a docking mechanism between the two capsules. We didn't have to share a lot of data, and we did that at the height of the Cold War, which was pretty symbolic.' –Bill Gerstenmaier.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["america","cold-war","global-community","globalism","globalization","international-law","international-relations","international-space-station","outer-space","russia","space-research","united-states","working-together"],"id":21458,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"},{"text":"Ideally, the ISS program will just be one more incremental step on an expanding, incredible journal of exploration and understanding, taking us higher and farther.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["astronauts","globalism","globalization","international-relations","international-space-station","iss","outer-space","space","space-exploration","space-travel","working-together"],"id":57554,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"},{"text":"NASA astronauts have only managed to live continuously on the International Space Station (ISS) for a year and Biosphere 2 on Earth failed at two years of uninterrupted human habitation. Both cases required extracting the sickened people from the toxic environments. At this point it is ludicrous to talk about a permanent manned base on Mars.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["astronauts","base","biosphere","both","cases","continuously","earth","environments","extracting","failed","habitation","human","international","international-space-station","iss","live","ludicrous","managed","manned","mars","nasa","people","permanent","point","required","sickened","space","station","talk","toxic","uninterrupted","year"],"id":66674,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"You can't solve problems until you understand the other side.' –Jeffrey Manber.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["communication","communication-skills","conflict-resolution","international-space-station","mediation","problem-solving","problems","space","space-exploration"],"id":252515,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"},{"text":"If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["astronaut","change","collaboration","end-poverty","international-space-station","iss","poverty","progress","space","world-chage"],"id":334860,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"},{"text":"Everyone I have spoken with about working with the Russians in space exploration believes that the United States has learned a great deal from Russia and that Russia has learned a great deal from the United States – and that the entire international space partnership is much better because of it.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["america","astronaut","cold-war","collaboration","international-space-station","outer-space","russia","space","space-exploration","united-states","working-together"],"id":361909,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"},{"text":"I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["astronaut","explosives","international-space-station","iss","outer-space","space","space-exploration","space-ship"],"id":437747,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}