Best 94 quotes in «astronaut quotes» category

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

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

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——

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

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

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

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...

I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and Face - they have Facebook going. I think it's more of a personal relationship they have with space now. They see it as more obtainable than me watching my superhero Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. It's like, there's no way I can do that.

I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

NASA is developing space taxis to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station. And just like New York taxis, they're all going to be driven by aliens.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

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.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars.

Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.