The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad. — Isabel Yosito Copy Share Image
More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013. — Bill Maher 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
In the '60s astronauts were rockstars. Everyone wanted to be an astronaut. — Grant Imahara Copy Share Image
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
I've always been a bit of a space geek. I wrote an article years ago about the neutral buoyancy tank, which is… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Being in space is amazing - it's the reason we all become astronauts - but you also have to love what you're… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
It's been fun doing interviews with the other astronauts, getting to hear: 'Oh, that's how he explains it' or 'That's how she… — Peggy Whitson 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
“If we are to send people, it must be for a very good reason - and with a realistic understanding that almost… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists:… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“When done correctly, space travel can be quite boring. The remaining portion of the voyage went without any major stumbling blocks. The… — J.J. Dreese Copy Share Image
What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven't found yet. Especially, there's these close approaches of asteroids.… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
“A bra was not for little kids who dreamed of being astronauts. What are you gonna do with boobs in space? Unless… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
“Readers will recall that the little evidence collected seemed to point to the strange and confusing figure of an unidentified Air Force… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The Americans are still the leaders in human space flight. I feel we have a danger here of kind of stagnating. We're… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
The United States, Russia, and China are the only three countries in the world that can launch astronauts into space. Mostly in… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
I attended a big human space flight conference in Beijing and I was going as myself. And really, there weren't any NASA… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Mma Ramotswe found it difficult to imagine what it would be like to have no people. There were, she knew, those who… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“While there, I was somewhat surprised to learn that our next foray into space would include an orbiter with wings and with… — Buzz Aldrin 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
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts. — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
