“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization. — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life. — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars. — Sanford Biggers Copy Share Image
Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Like a lot of kids, I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. With me, it stuck more than most… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when people find out I’m an astronaut, they ask, “So what do you do when you’re not flying in space?” — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen… — Stephen Colbert 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
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
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 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 I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
The prerequisite that people have a scientific or engineering degree or a medical degree limits the number of female astronauts. Right now,… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able… — Douglas Coupland 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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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