“This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the… — Ron Garan Copy Share Image
It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level. — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people… — Mark Shuttleworth Copy Share Image
I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
“Every time I see a USA rocket launch, I am reminded of the millions of disabled people that were denied their disability… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread… — Ilan Ramon Copy Share Image
I was a graduate student in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan called for the construction of a new space station. I knew… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
I grew up in California. I was outside of the city, not directly in it. So I did have an experience of… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera,… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an… — Chris Lowell Copy Share Image
Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
When you talk to astronauts, the most profound thing when you finally go into space is the view - looking back at… — Jeremy Hansen Copy Share Image
“I looked and looked but I didn't see God. [ Speaking about, in 1961, becoming the first human to enter space .]” — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
When somebody says I wanted to be an astronaut my question is 'Did you apply?' And most people say no. And to… — Anne McClain Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut,… — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from… — Ellison Onizuka Copy Share Image
I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
To become an astronaut is not a question of being the best at something or things coming easy to you, but it's… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
I seriously feel like Bowie was an astronaut who went into space and experienced things and brought back these... treasures. — Robyn Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted to be an astronaut, then a fighter pilot, and then later, as I grew up, I was… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give… — Mike Mullane Copy Share Image
Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let… — Kalpana Chawla Copy Share Image
The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
The biggest honor is to be an astronaut. It's such a tremendous privilege to be able to represent humankind in our quest… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon! — Juliana Rotich Copy Share Image
“I think the best time to stare off into space is when you’re going 65 on a motorcycle, provided you’re wearing your… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image