Astronaut Quotes - Page 2

• Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.

  David M. Brown

  Boys, Space, One Day

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

  Gene Cernan

  Civilization, Alien Life, Space Aliens

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• I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

  Leroy Chiao

  Russia, Interesting, Chinese

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• Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

  Claude Nicollier

  Dream, Next, Realizing

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• My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Mother, Stars, Mean

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• In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.

  Linda M. Godwin

  Hands, Years, Office

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• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

  Dan Quayle

  Silly, Stupidity, President

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• I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

  Natalie Portman

  Summer, Space, Dying

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

  Sally Ride

  Couple, Years, Flight

  Scholastic's Web site Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.

  Barbara Walters

  Airplane, Clouds, Rainbow

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• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Years, House, Heaven

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• And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Italian, Government, Agreement

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• The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

  Sally Ride

  Space, Different, Program

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• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  Sally Ride

  Loss, Suits, Way

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• 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.

  Sally Ride

  Firsts, Excited, Worried

  Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.

  Leroy Chiao

  Country, Thinking, Leader

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• I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

  Shannon Lucid

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Math, Space, People

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• People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in order to stay calm in a high-stress, high-stakes situation, all you really need is knowledge. Sure, you might still feel a little nervous or stressed or hyper-alert. But what you won't feel is terrified.

  Chris Hadfield

  Courage, Stress, Emotional

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.

  Roberta Bondar

  Life, Change, Attitude

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

  Scott Carpenter

  Space, Surveillance, Flying Saucers

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

  Neil Armstrong

  Century, Ends, Expected

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• I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Reading, Writing

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

  Arthur Goldberg

  Moon, Facts, Made

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• I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Education, Opportunity, Students

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