Astronaut Quote by Michael J. Massimino

I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it…

— Story Musgrave

Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves…

— Lisa Nowak

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

— Sally Ride

All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to…

— John M. Grunsfeld

The astronauts put their lives at risk to help other people. There's a strength of belief in a person like that that we should…

— Rudy Giuliani

I think the people that want to fly in space, who want to work in space, who want to go to station, these people…

— Roman Romanenko

We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.

— Jim Cantrell

We do not become an astronaut because we fear not only the risk of space, but we fear the risk of failure along the…

— Rick Tumlinson

Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly…

— Eileen Collins

I'm not a huge risk taker. I think that, for me, I take certain kinds of risks, but if you look at me, you…

— Joan Allen

NASA is so risk-averse. That's insane for exploration.

— Robert Bigelow

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

— Valentina Tereshkova