Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The 20-G Centrifuge is our largest facility certified for use by humans. Its capabilities make it a unique NASA resource and a… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut.… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
I remember looking at the moon as an 8-year-old and marveling that there were two astronauts in a lander on the surface,… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that… — Eileen Collins Copy Share Image
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers,… — Adlai Stevenson Copy Share Image
I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble,… — James Irwin Copy Share Image
Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was… — Alan G. Poindexter Copy Share Image
The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
NEEMO missions are a challenging and exciting aspect of astronaut training. The research we conduct during those missions allows us to test… — Jeremy Hansen Copy Share Image
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
![“Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life . . . they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing . . . and nobody can tell you different.” quote by Ben Bova](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/565/ben-bova-26822_astronaut_up-here-in-space-you-re-free-really-free_819143.jpg)
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