And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the… — Duane G. Carey Copy Share Image
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I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
The only negative thing is that I got into acting thinking, "One day I'll be a cowboy, the next day I'll be… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
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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
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
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
I think that changing stereotypes and attitudes, it takes time. As we progress and we have more women astronauts and more women… — Carolyn Maloney 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
'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
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'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
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 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
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
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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
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