Astronaut Quote by Burt Reynolds

I wish that I was one of those kids who grew up saying I always wanted to be an astronaut and was really good…

— Emily Calandrelli

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of…

— Duane G. Carey

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

— Sunita Williams

What guy didn't want to be an astronaut growing up?

— Glen Powell

I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with…

— David M. Brown

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

— Sally Ride

I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything…

— Mark Goddard

As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized…

— Alfonso Cuaron

I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.

— Chris Hadfield

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led…

— Alan Shepard

I was the most emotional of the flight directors. Space really got me all honked up.

— Gene Kranz

There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school…

— Patrick J. Adams