Astronaut Quotes
188 Astronaut quotes by 129 unique authors
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
— Sally Ride
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
— Sally Ride
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
— Sally Ride
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
— Sally Ride
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One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
— Sally Ride
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
— Sally Ride
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little…
— Sally Ride
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The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all…
— Sally Ride
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in…
— Sally Ride
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The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect…
— Sally Ride
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The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing…
— Ray Romano
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I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
— William Shatner
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I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a…
— Sidney Sheldon
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Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to…
— Alan Shepard
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When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they…
— Cat Stevens
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Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.
— Steven Wright
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While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which…
— Mark Haddon
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A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from…
— Douglas Coupland
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From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Who Wrote These Astronaut Quotes
129 authors contributed a total of 188 Astronaut Quotes, led by these top contributors: