I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear… — Sally Ride 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
I've always been somebody who wants to have my hands in all of the baskets, and I would go through these obsessive… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
What keeps me up at night? Probably most, thinking about the future for my kids. It sounds kind of funny, but not… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and… — Alexey Leonov Copy Share Image
“He asked whether I wanted to become an astronaut and I said I did. He said that it was very difficult to… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The most important steps that I followed were studying math and science in school. I was always interested in physics and astronomy… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I get a call - said, do you want to be an astronaut? I said, oh, my gosh, yes. And he said,… — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
“I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I’ve never wanted to be an astronaut because of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut.… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers,… — Adlai Stevenson Copy Share Image
I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that… — Eileen Collins Copy Share Image
I remember looking at the moon as an 8-year-old and marveling that there were two astronauts in a lander on the surface,… — Leroy Chiao 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
Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
The 20-G Centrifuge is our largest facility certified for use by humans. Its capabilities make it a unique NASA resource and a… — Jeff Smith 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
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was… — Alan G. Poindexter Copy Share Image
The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space. — Alexey Leonov 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
![“Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life . . . they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing . . . and nobody can tell you different.” quote by Ben Bova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/565/ben-bova-26822_astronaut_up-here-in-space-you-re-free-really-free_819143.jpg)
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