The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few. — Julie Payette 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
Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing. — David Eagleman 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
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
I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera,… — Michael Light 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
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the… — Leroy Chiao 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 was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice,… — Deke Slayton 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
I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“I was not surprised to find the poor were protesting the extravagant expense of the Moon landing back in the 1960’s.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts.… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below… — Loren Acton Copy Share Image
In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to… — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he… — Katherine Paterson 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
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
Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
The stupidest thing I ever did was turn down 'Terms of Endearment' to do 'Cannonball Run II.' Jim Brooks wrote the part… — Burt Reynolds Copy Share Image
Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
