Astronaut Quotes

188 Astronaut quotes by 129 unique authors

The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than… — Burt Rutan
There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut. — Analeigh Tipton
Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut. — Duane G. Carey
I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the… — Laurel Clark
I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69… — Robert Crippen
Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row. — Joni Mitchell
When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right. — Kate Bush
I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on… — Etgar Keret
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… — Chris Hadfield
Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the… — Kevin A. Ford
In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and… — Linda M. Godwin
Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also. — Claude Nicollier
It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious it is. It… — Dixie Lee Ray
When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an astrophysicist and astronaut… — W. Ann Reynolds
I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon. — Arthur Goldberg
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business… — Tom Peters
Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear… — Bruce Willis
People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in order to stay… — Chris Hadfield
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… — Chris Hadfield
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… — Chris Hadfield

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