The Apollo Murders Quotes

“Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“When the third-stage motor shut off, the spacecraft was suddenly weightless, orbiting around the Earth. The little metal orb drifted gently up from its resting place, becoming a tiny conductive balloon in a playground of circuitry.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“Like most pilots, he hated heights”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“The air pressure inside the cabin had dropped steadily, as planned, during launch, and was now holding at one-third of what it had been in Florida. The gases in everyone’s guts had expanded, and all three of them were farting.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“A spaceship is, in essence, a bubble of Earth’s air in the empty vacuum of space.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“He pointed out the Spacecraft Center, and then Seabrook and Kemah as they crossed the Galveston Bay shoreline.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“He smiled. Scientists do love Volkswagens!”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“It was a Rube Goldberg contraption that someone had once said looked like a flying bedstead. The nickname had stuck. The Bedstead had a jet engine that pointed straight up, and hydrogen peroxide thrusters mounted at all angles on an ungainly aluminum frame.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“Transit time back to Earth would be three days — lots of opportunity to sort out a plan. For now, though, she was locked inside this small place with a man she couldn’t trust. A man she’d fired her gun at twice, and who’d latched the door with her outside. First step was to survive this night, on the surface of the Moon.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“The air pressure inside the cabin had dropped steadily, as planned, during launch, and was now holding at one-third of what it had been in Florida. The gases in everyone’s guts had expanded, and all three of them were farting. Michael winced. ‘Geez, Luke, keep that in your own spacesuit, would ya?”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“The bird strike hadn’t only cost Kaz an eye. Without binocular vision, he’d lost his medical as both a test pilot and an astronaut selectee who’d been assigned to fly on MOL, the military’s planned Manned Orbiting Laboratory spy space station. His work and dreams had disappeared in a bloody flurry of feathers.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“All flying machines were essentially the same; you just had to figure out how to get them started and how they wanted to kill you.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“We therefore commit Captain Luke Hemming’s body to the depths of space, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, when the Universe shall give up her dead, and the life of worlds to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Who at his coming shall change our vile body, that it may be like his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders