Astronaut Quotes - Page 7

• I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Eye, Space, Given

  Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum (1988). “Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.

  Chris Hadfield

  Turns, Destined

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moon, Men, Thinking

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

  Steve Jobs

  Football, Player, Men

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• A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. That's how I felt seeing the Earth for the first time. I could not help but love and cherish her.

  Taylor Wang

  Love, Girl, Men

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• The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

  Julie Payette

  Opportunity, Canada

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• 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 for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

  Eileen Collins

  Country, Patriotic, People

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• 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 in stride because that’s what I had to do to get into space. That’s where I belong, and I’m pretty good at it.

  Story Musgrave

  Play, Space, Risk

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• After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline.

  Dmitry Rogozin

  Usa, Space, Analyzing

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• I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut.

  Joey Comeau

  Judging, Gentleman, Want

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human
  being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

  Terence McKenna

  Facts, Psychedelic, Collectivity

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• President Obama is launching a new $6 billion space policy that will ultimately take astronauts to Mars. Of course, it's $6 billion and $45 if the astronauts have a carry-on.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Space, President, Mars

  "CNN Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands. They speak up. They defend the things they hold dear. A cowgirl might be a rancher, or a barrel racer, or a bull rider, or an actress. But she's just as likely to be a checker at the local Winn Dixie, a full-time mother, a banker, an attorney, or an astronaut.

  Dale Evans

  Mother, Light, Special

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• We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensations of weightlessness and space flight.

  Richard Branson

  Dream, Stars, Future

  "Now Virgin to offer trips to space". www.cnn.com. September 27, 2004.

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• Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming.

  Sally Ride

  Future, Moon, Thinking

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• By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space. So we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow and I expect to be around in see it.

  Barack Obama

  Future, Believe, Journey

  "What's In The Stars For NASA?". "Science Friday", www.npr.org. April 16, 2010.

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• . . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

  Edward Kasner

  Independent, Math, Mind

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• Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

  Joni Mitchell

  Reality, Heaven, Lord

  Song: The Same Situation, Album: Court and Spark

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• When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

  Kate Bush

  Stars, Men, Outer Space

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• I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

  Michael J. Massimino

  Thinking, Risk, Worthwhile

  "NASA Astronaut Discusses Gravity and the Dangers of Spacewalking". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• 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 is no coincidence that our awakening to the special nature of our world and to its uniquely balanced environment and its limitations coincided with our first glimpse of earth from outer space, through the eyes of astronauts, television cameras and photographic equipment.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Eye, Technology, Our World

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• Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Serious, Endeavor, Preparing

  "NASA Investigation Finds No Drunken Astronauts" by Ashley Phillips, abcnews.go.com. January 23, 2008.

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• [On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public saw with their own eyes how science is done, how a great scientist thinks with his hands, how nature gives a clear answer when a scientist asks her a clear question.

  Freeman Dyson

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• 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

  Dragons, Nerd, Dungeons

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• 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 docking of a Progress spaceship.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Progress, Unusual, Spaceships

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