Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives. — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
You can be an astronaut, knowing it can be super dangerous but understand intuitively what the risk issues are. Not having the… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me… — Ulrich Walter Copy Share Image
I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It was reported today that the machine on board the International Space Station that turns urine into drinking water has been fixed.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Also I didn't have 20/20 vision which you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Clearly, when I first started talking about the fact that I wanted to be an astronaut, I was in primary school, so… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
If you look at astronauts closely, their eyes look kind of puffy. And it gives you this mild headache. But one of… — Mike Mullane Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director.… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
I would certainly encourage young people to pursue their dreams. It isn't always an easy path, but it's worth going after. And… — Peggy Whitson Copy Share Image
The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in the space program, and I didn't know if I could be an astronaut like I'd dreamt… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown.… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only… — Ilan Ramon Copy Share Image
My name is Leland Tyler Wayne. My mom wanted to give me a name where, no matter what I wanted to do,… — Metro Boomin Copy Share Image
It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
When I was in Class Four, I wanted to be an astronaut. I am still fascinated with the universe. I decided I… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts — Philippe Perrin Copy Share Image
NASA is developing space taxis to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station. And just like New York taxis, they're all going… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I… — Deke Slayton Copy Share Image
I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because… — Paris Jackson Copy Share Image
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow.… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
President Obama is launching a new $6 billion space policy that will ultimately take astronauts to Mars. Of course, it's $6 billion… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever really decide that you want to be an astronaut. I put in an application and hoped for… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a… — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
When I became an astronaut, I knew I wanted to pursue long-duration flight aboard the station. I knew it would be a… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
You think you want to be an astronaut, and then after a while you're a geo-major for whatever reason. That's just the… — Rob Brown Copy Share Image
My feelings are 'Godspeed, John Glenn.' But I feel badly that he took a spot away from a young astronaut who had… — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
