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Astronaut Quotes by Chris Hadfield
- I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.
- My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of…
- One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find…
- Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of…
- People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in order to stay…
- Square astronaut, round hole. But somehow, I'd managed to push myself through it, and here was the truly amazing part: along the way, I'd become…
- It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but…
- Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs.
- As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.
- And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.
More Astronaut Quotes
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- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. — David Byrne
- I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And… — 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
- The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The… — Buzz Aldrin
- To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon… — Buzz Aldrin
- Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen. — Steve Carell
- I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. — Muhammad Ali
- Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let… — Kalpana Chawla