I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .'… — Samuel R. Delany 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
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
I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit. — Anne McClain Copy Share Image
As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a… — Bill Watterson 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 was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President,… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth… — Alexey Leonov Copy Share Image
I wanted to become an astronaut because I believe that the exploration of space by humans is extremely important. — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars. — Sanford Biggers Copy Share Image
More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013. — Bill Maher 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
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
For the first time American astronauts on the International Space Station ate vegetables grown in space. In other words, even space is… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
The astronaut corps is a very small part of a very large team that enables human spaceflight. — Anne McClain 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 first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old. — Anne McClain 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
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
