The prerequisite that people have a scientific or engineering degree or a medical degree limits the number of female astronauts. Right now,… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
There are millions of people out there who would love to become astronauts, who'd love to go to space - they'd love… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Where we're operating is orbital adventures. We would offer five to seven days in low Earth orbit aboard our own spacecraft where… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In… — David Saint-Jacques Copy Share Image
Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Why did I want to be an astronaut? That's not an easy question to answer because I know a lot of kids… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown.… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in the space program, and I didn't know if I could be an astronaut like I'd dreamt… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I would certainly encourage young people to pursue their dreams. It isn't always an easy path, but it's worth going after. And… — Peggy Whitson Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director.… — Alfonso Cuaron 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
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
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
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
My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid,… — Elvis Mitchell 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
“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
It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
There was a point in my life where I either wanted to be an astronaut, an actor, a veterinarian, or a pirate.… — Emily Bett Rickards Copy Share Image
A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather… — Taylor Wang Copy Share Image
I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I… — Andrew J. Feustel Copy Share Image
At every step of the way, when I had trouble, there were people that came in, in my life that helped me.… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
I think professional cosmonaut trainer in fact said that we are the only two [with Damian Kulash ] he found fit to… — Trish Sie Copy Share Image
Mental fitness is obviously important to being an astronaut, but so it physical fitness. For example, space walks are extremely physically demanding.… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that,… — Taylor Wilson Copy Share Image
![“So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an…” quote by Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b8/steve-jobs-307_astronaut_so-polaroid-s-dr-edwin-land-at-75-went-o_3235574.jpg)
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