Astronaut Quotes
When I was a kid, they'd say, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" kids would go Wonder Woman, an astronaut. Do you know what I always said? World domination - so we're on our way.
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.
Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??
My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.
It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.
Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.
I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.
Being a leading man... that's like saying I want to be astronaut. That's not going to happen.
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.
Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.
Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.
I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
I applied to be an astronaut four times. I was rejected three times before I was accepted. So, it's about that, not - following your dream and not giving up.
Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.
Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.
I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.
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.
Also I didn't habe 20/20 vision whch you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.
We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.
If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.
This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the gift of the planet we've been given.
And in that moment, I was hit with the realization that this delicate layer of atmosphere is all that protects every living thing on Earth from perishing in the harshness of space.
At this point I thought 'We made it, ' by which I meant 'We survived.' I also was acutely aware that my childhood dream of flying into space had just come true.
I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives.
They've said your name sounds like an astronaut, but you don't go ascend above the sky.Don't you know you are a fall from the shooting star?
To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!