My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but… — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
Square astronaut, round hole. But somehow, I'd managed to push myself through it, and here was the truly amazing part: along the… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man… — John F. Kennedy 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
When you talk to astronauts, the most profound thing when you finally go into space is the view - looking back at… — Jeremy Hansen Copy Share Image
Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an… — Chris Lowell 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 never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an… — Analeigh Tipton Copy Share Image
Most of us at least briefly considered answering, 'An astronaut,' when asked as children what we wanted to be when we grew… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“My experiences in the Astronaut Corps had taught me that you never know what will happen from day to day. It’s best… — Leland Melvin Copy Share Image
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It's something no astronaut ever… — Helen Sharman Copy Share Image
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
I grew up in California. I was outside of the city, not directly in it. So I did have an experience of… — Larry Wilmore 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
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
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
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 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
I wish that I was one of those kids who grew up saying I always wanted to be an astronaut and was… — Emily Calandrelli Copy Share Image
Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want… — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
