"I see Earth! It is so beautiful." — Yuri Gagarin

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• It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
• As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of… — 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… — 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… — Buzz Aldrin
• I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the… — Buzz Aldrin
• The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar… — Buzz Aldrin
• To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the… — 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… — Muhammad Ali
• Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job.… — Kalpana Chawla

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