I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed… — Aaron Tippin Copy Share Image
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled… — Paul Davies 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
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
How come, just as the rocket is launching, the astronauts don't also shoot some fireworks out the window? It would make the… — Jack Handey 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
“From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the… — Ed Mitchell 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
I wanted to become president, and I wanted to become an astronaut. Because I was really good at math. — Joel Embiid Copy Share Image
My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but… — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes… — Dale Evans Copy Share Image
And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the… — Umberto Guidoni Copy Share Image
Canada needs individuals to whom educators can point, and of whom we can be proud, whether athletes or astronauts or anything else.… — Roberta Bondar 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
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected. — John L. Phillips 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
Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
“«I flew the company’s last trip. The shuttle was packed with people not returning to Earth. They’d decided to spend the rest… — Margrét Helgadóttir Copy Share Image
I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident — Eileen Collins 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
I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings… — Laurel Clark Copy Share Image
I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got… — Robert Crippen Copy Share Image
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