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
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
I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I… — Joan Jett 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
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
Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed… — Sidney Sheldon 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
NEEMO missions are a challenging and exciting aspect of astronaut training. The research we conduct during those missions allows us to test… — Jeremy Hansen 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and… — Sally Ride 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
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
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies… — Terry Pratchett 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
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
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to… — Edgar Mitchell 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
“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
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
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
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 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 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
'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be another. At… — Tom DeLonge 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, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this…” quote by James Irwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/james-irwin-74067_astronaut_as-we-got-further-and-further-away-it-th_531776.png)
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