Astronaut Quotes

• I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Boxing, World

  Twitter post from Nov 25, 2009

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  It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

  Neil Armstrong

  Eye, Space, Blue

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

  William Anders

  Moon, Space, Earth Day

  "The mysteries of sleepwalking and night fears are not solved", www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

  Neil Armstrong

  Memories, Boys, Ohio

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• Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Eye, Deep Thought, Mind

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• Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.

  Duane G. Carey

  Cases, Wells

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• I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.

  Laurel Clark

  Growing Up, Moon, Thinking

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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• I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.

  David M. Brown

  Jobs, Stars, Growing Up

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• The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

  Sally Ride

  Men, Class, Used

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• On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

  Sally Ride

  Two, Space, Pilots

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• 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...

  Robert Crippen

  Military, Half, Nasa

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

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• When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.

  Cat Stevens

  Religious, Space, Size

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• No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

  Sally Ride

  Thinking, Space, Risk

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

  Sally Ride

  College, Ends, Wanted

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• It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

  John L. Phillips

  Years, Long, Facts

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• I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Integrity, Men, Honor

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• 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.

  Sally Ride

  Sleep, Bed, Littles

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• I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever

  Philippe Perrin

  Stars, Thinking, Want

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• Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

  Andy Weir

  Insane, Noble

  Andy Weir (2017). “The Martian: Classroom Edition: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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• For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light-our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance.

  Ulf Merbold

  Ocean, Dark, Space

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

  Gordon Cooper

  Government, Feelings, Sitting

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• The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.

  Robert Crippen

  Airplane, Eight, Sitting Still

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• Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Men, Feet

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Motivational, Perseverance, Discovery

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