The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the …

- John L. Phillips

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

- John L. Phillips

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and huma…

- John L. Phillips

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy wal…

- John L. Phillips

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room fo…

- John L. Phillips

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are…

- John L. Phillips

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

- John L. Phillips

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went …

- John L. Phillips

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

- John L. Phillips