Being Quote by Alan G. Poindexter

Once you get into the spacecraft, you're on your way, you've got a mission, you're focused, and it's really exciting.

— Sunita Williams

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

— Robert Crippen

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

— Robert Crippen

The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.

— Max Verstappen

“For the better part of seven decades, watching rockets launch from Cape Canaveral has been a major tourist attraction, a favorite activity of locals,…

— James D. Wright

“What's going on? I'm in the back car of a roller coaster at the top of the climb, with the front rows already giving…

— Neal Shusterman

The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step…

— Bonnie Hammer

The first 6 hours of being in orbit were a little difficult on my stomach. I think things just didn't know where to go!

— Sunita Williams

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

— Sally Ride

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.

— Brian Walker

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong…

— Sally Ride

Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh