Astronaut Quotes - Page 3

• Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

  Paul Davies

  Jobs, Orbit, Phases

  "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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• What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.

  Alexey Leonov

  Stars, Moving, Heart

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• I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Team, Hands, Knowing

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Stars, Home, Science

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.454, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Sunita Williams

  Limits, Infinite Possibilities, Notion

  "The Astronaut Who Brought Samosas Into Space". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. April 5, 2013.

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• I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Space, Mars

  "Cosmic Currency: PayPal and SETI Developing Space Cash System". www.space.com. June 27, 2013.

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• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Airplane, Thinking

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• Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth.

  Mitt Romney

  Hero, Son, Moon

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2012

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• Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one.

  Ronald McNair

  Inspirational, Dream, Firsts

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• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

  Sally Ride

  Sleep, Different, Way

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• The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread to my country.

  Ilan Ramon

  Beauty, Hope, Country

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• We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.

  Ray Bradbury

  War, Moving, Danger

  "Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and angels'" by John Blake, CNN: Living, August 02, 2010.

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• And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

  Duane G. Carey

  Military, Careers, Goal

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• Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.

  Chris Hadfield

  Life, Motivational, Time

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• If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

  Gus Grissom

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  "Gemini : A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space". Book by Virgil I. Grissom, 1968.

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• Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Responsibility, Men, Space

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• My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned me to look beyond man-made boundaries and prejudices. One does not have to undertake a space flight to come by this feeling.

  Rakesh Sharma

  Inspirational, Change, Country

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• As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

  John Glenn

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

  Frank Borman

  Peace, Moon, Ubuntu

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• Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Appreciation, Space, Appreciate

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• There are people who make things happen, there are people who
  watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
  happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
  things happen.

  Jim Lovell

  Motivational, Success, People

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

  Mark Haddon

  Eye, Lazy, Too Late

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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

  David Byrne

  Secret, Agents, Wanted

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• The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good.

  Ilan Ramon

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

  Todd Barry

  People, Comedian, Want

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