In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men… — Leigh Brackett Copy Share Image
NASA appreciates the efforts of Congress to resolve restrictions placed on our partnership with Russia. Congress' action helps to ensure the continuous… — Michael D. Griffin 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 think the best time to stare off into space is when you’re going 65 on a motorcycle, provided you’re wearing your… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives. — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
You can be an astronaut, knowing it can be super dangerous but understand intuitively what the risk issues are. Not having the… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon! — Juliana Rotich Copy Share Image
“He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but… — Leroy Chiao 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
Clearly, when I first started talking about the fact that I wanted to be an astronaut, I was in primary school, so… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
If you look at astronauts closely, their eyes look kind of puffy. And it gives you this mild headache. But one of… — Mike Mullane Copy Share Image
The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only… — Ilan Ramon Copy Share Image
It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
My name is Leland Tyler Wayne. My mom wanted to give me a name where, no matter what I wanted to do,… — Metro Boomin Copy Share Image
Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me… — Ulrich Walter Copy Share Image
I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It was reported today that the machine on board the International Space Station that turns urine into drinking water has been fixed.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Also I didn't have 20/20 vision which you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
When I was in Class Four, I wanted to be an astronaut. I am still fascinated with the universe. I decided I… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts — Philippe Perrin 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
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
It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious… — Dixie Lee Ray 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
