Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But… — Robert Schimmel Copy Share Image
Space is our tool to take care of the world. From space, we know the Earth is fragile, and we can follow… — David Saint-Jacques 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 think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life… — Roberta Bondar Copy Share Image
I think professional cosmonaut trainer in fact said that we are the only two [with Damian Kulash ] he found fit to… — Trish Sie Copy Share Image
I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians. — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it. — Christina Koch Copy Share Image
Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts… — Shannon Lucid 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
I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid,… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that,… — Taylor Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that changing stereotypes and attitudes, it takes time. As we progress and we have more women astronauts and more women… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as… — Dee Dee Myers 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
Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
