I've done a lot of astronaut training through the world, Russia, America. And I could always beat the guys on what they… — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I got this letter asking me if I wanted to or if I would consider going to experimental test pilot school and… — Ed Dwight Copy Share Image
I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
We fly to 106 kilometers. We've always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because… — Jeff Bezos 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
“An astronaut is someone who’s able to make good decisions quickly, with incomplete information, when the consequences really matter.” — Chris Hadfield 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
Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We needed a "psychenaut" program to be the opposite of the astronaut program in order to explore the enormous domains and dimensions… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam… — Ulf Merbold Copy Share Image
By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station… — Dmitry Rogozin Copy Share Image
You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a… — Richard Dawkins 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
Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at… — J. G. Ballard 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
Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth,… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
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
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force.… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
After investigating the UFO phenomenon all over the world, after studying thousands of pages of released government documents, and interviewing eyewitnesses and… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
I saw this film Moon, it's directed by Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son. Sam Rockwell plays this astronaut that is stuck in… — Kelcey Ayer 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
Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted… — Pete Olson Copy Share Image
My quest to expand access to space began more than a decade ago, when I teamed up with Burt Rutan at Scaled… — Paul Allen 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 purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The astronaut in his technical and complex machine, effortlessly orbiting the earth, alone and weightless in the emptiness of space, is the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton said that her childhood dream was to be an Olympic athlete. But she was not athletic enough. She said she… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300… — Deke Slayton Copy Share Image
“Did you know that in space it's very, very cold? And there's no oxygen? And if an astronaut fell out of a… — Huntley Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned… — Rakesh Sharma Copy Share Image
The basic thing you have to understand is everything that happens on that spaceship, from the time you crawl into that seat… — Ed Dwight Copy Share Image
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