Woo hoo!" Williams told Mission Control after running 26.2 miles on a treadmill at the international space station..
"Oh, boy!" -- July 20 , 1969 after hearing Neil Armstrong tell mission control: "Tranquillity Base here.
Woo hoo!" Williams told Mission Control after running 26.2 miles on a treadmill at the international space station...
"Not to spoil anything, but I think up here the appropriate words are 'yippee'" Mr Fincke told mission control early this morning, shortly before heading to bed.
With a cry of "yippee!" the commander of the orbiting International Space Station told mission control that a contraption for turning urine into drinking water was finally working and the crew were heading to bed.
It was then that Fred Haise, from a distance of 204,700 miles, and heading to the moon with his fellow astronauts Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert, told Mission Control: "OK, Houston, hey, we've got a problem here".
Premier Wen Jiabao told mission control the three were heroes, and said their efforts had "put China in an elite club of three nations that have managed a space walk".
Before leaving the ISS, Mr Hadfield - the first Canadian to command the ISS - told Mission Control: "It's just been an extremely fulfilling and amazing experience".
Station commander Sunita Williams of NASA told Mission Control that commands sent from the laptop apparently were not reaching the ATV spacecraft.
On 16 July 2006, "Just Like Heaven" was played as a wake-up call for the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery on their flight STS-121 at the request of astronaut Piers Sellers' family; Sellers told mission control center that the song reminded him of "the wild, happy, drinking-beer years of my youth".
"Just does not look like an optimum day to come home," Mission Control told the mission commander, Kenneth D. Cockrell.
