Astronaut Quotes · Page 6

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

— Mark Haddon

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

— Anne McClain

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

— Joan Jett

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

— Joni Mitchell

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

— Eileen Collins

"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

— Chris Hadfield

The astronaut corps is a very small part of a very large team that enables human spaceflight.

— Anne McClain

The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.

— Michael J. Massimino

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's…

— John Glenn

I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has…

— Etgar Keret

The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community.

— Heidi Hammel

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on…

— Colin Firth

I got this letter asking me if I wanted to or if I would consider going to experimental test pilot school and…

— Ed Dwight

“I need to ask myself, 'What would an Apollo astronaut do?' He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad,…

— Andy Weir

“You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about.…

— Joe Hill

To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life…

— Roberta Bondar

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

[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven…

— Freeman Dyson

I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that…

— John M. Grunsfeld

Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth,…

— Kevin A. Ford

I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed…

— Aaron Tippin

After investigating the UFO phenomenon all over the world, after studying thousands of pages of released government documents, and interviewing eyewitnesses and…

— Michael Hesemann

“Nevertheless, I was convinced that I could be selected as an astronaut. Ed White had been accepted, and we had flown together…

— Buzz Aldrin

I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force.…

— Buzz Aldrin

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

— Luca Parmitano

I watch a lot of astronaut movies…Mostly Star Wars. And even Han and Chewie use a checklist.

— Jon Stewart

What I teach you is not Rocket Science but you will become a Astronaut.

— Cv Pillay

Becoming an astronaut was a little bit of happenstance for me.

— Sunita Williams

I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts.

— Demetri Martin

I think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut.

— Kathleen Rubins

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

In the '60s astronauts were rockstars. Everyone wanted to be an astronaut.

— Grant Imahara

It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.

— Luca Parmitano

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts

— Philippe Perrin

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

My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to…

— Nayvadius Cash

Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or…

— John Updike

When I was in Class Four, I wanted to be an astronaut. I am still fascinated with the universe. I decided I…

— Rajkummar Rao

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

— Tom Hanks

Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they…

— Ellen Ochoa