I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made… — Peggy Whitson Copy Share Image
I grew up in Spokane, Washington, and I can't recall ever not wanting to be an astronaut. — Anne McClain Copy Share Image
I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians. — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
“I meet people to know I’m not alone. I network like an astronaut on the moon.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk. — Luca Parmitano Copy Share Image
In the '60s astronauts were rockstars. Everyone wanted to be an astronaut. — Grant Imahara Copy Share Image
I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But… — Robert Schimmel Copy Share Image
You’ve got to believe you can be a standup before you can be a standup. You have to believe you can act… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be… — Philippe Perrin Copy Share Image
Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession… — Eric Frank Russell Copy Share Image
Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Like a lot of kids, I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. With me, it stuck more than most… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related… — Michael J. Massimino 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
It was hard to become an astronaut. Not anywhere near as much physical training as people imagine, but a lot of mental… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
“How to Train Your Head of State (The Sonnet) We shall achieve more by blasting politicians into space, than by blasting satellites… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
In 2006, I became the fist American to be allowed to go visit their astronaut center in China in Beijing. I think… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Anything from making a mistake on an experiment that would ruin some scientist on earth's experiment - career, potentially - to doing… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President,… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of astronaut movies…Mostly Star Wars. And even Han and Chewie use a checklist. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Houston is where I grew up and luckily I didn't have to go far to pursue my dream of becoming an astronaut. — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
I think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question. — Luca Parmitano Copy Share Image
I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident — Eileen Collins Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills. — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
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