Best 94 quotes in «astronaut quotes» category

I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives.

In the van, we can see the rocket in the distance, lit up and shining, an obelisk. In reality, of course, it’s a 4.5-megaton bomb loaded with explosive fuel, which is why everyone else is driving away from it.

I looked and looked but I didn't see God. [Speaking about, in 1961, becoming the first human to enter space.]

Make Believe When I wake up in the morning Not all is what it seems I drift through a world of make believe Between my real life and my dreams. Strange Adventures from the space book That I read the night before Crowd in upon on my drowsiness Through imagination's door. Between sleeping and waking The alarm clock's jangalang cry Becomes the roaring fire-railed rocket That hurls me through the sky. My bed's a silver spacecraft Which I pilot all alone Whisp'ring through endless stratospheres Towards planets still unknown. Outside through the mists of morning The spinning lights of cars In my make-believe space voyage Become eternities of stars. Is that my mother calling something That my dreams can't understand? Or can it be crackling instructions From far off Mission Command? Gareth Owen

I saw sunrises fade and burn among fleets of sparks. The moon blossomed like a lily carved of bone... The Death of the Astronaut, page 390.

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.

The most dangerous job by far in the USA is an astronaut.

Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.

The congressmen in the room just wanted to see them, to use their position to arrange a personal audience, to gaze upon them with their own eyes across the committee table, no more than four feet away, to shake hands with them, occupy the same space on this earth with them for and hour or so, fawn over them, pay homage to them, bathe in their magical aura, feel the radiation of their righteous stuff, salute them, wish upon them the smile of God...

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We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.

Weightlessness was wonderful, and I was surprised at how natural it felt.

When it comes to travelling to Mars, we either pursue physical paths and redesign our spacecraft with improved radiation-shielding and staggering fuel-efficiency. Or we cheat a little and bend the space/time continuum to get there.

we roar along the rust belts——the great red spot—— the polar vortex——the caress of solar flares—— ruffle the molten methane and ammonia oceans of me—— the storm-riven non-surface of me and mine—— that which you call skin—— a threadbare term to describe where I stop and others begin——

We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return.

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.

When you peel back the glamorous veneer of the astronaut, you find that it is a really dangerous and biologically toxic job.

Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.

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

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.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.

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.

Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any.

Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't

At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.

Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it.

I attended a big human space flight conference in Beijing and I was going as myself. And really, there weren't any NASA astronauts there, I was the only so-called American Astronaut there. We had astronauts from most of the other countries, certainly from Russia, from France, from Japan, several other countries, but it was a little bit odd because here we are at an international gathering of a lot of astronauts and I'm talking about somewhere upwards of 30 or so astronauts, and I'm the only American. And I wasn't even there in an official capacity.

I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

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

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

If there'd been an astronaut on the moon right then, I'm sure I could have seen him. Perhaps he could have looked down and seen me too... the only one who could.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

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

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

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.

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.