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Astronaut Quotes by John L. Phillips
- There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
- I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be…
- It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
- It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
More Astronaut Quotes
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- 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