Ive always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But its also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. – Laurel Clark
Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. Im thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. – Laurel Clark
I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual thats happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is. – Laurel Clark
Its such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space… were doing such exciting research. And I dont want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that were doing is extremely exciting. – Laurel Clark
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick