Astronaut Quotes - Page 6

• There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.

  Analeigh Tipton

  Dragons, Nerd, Dungeons

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

  Ellen Ochoa

  Serious, Endeavor, Preparing

  "NASA Investigation Finds No Drunken Astronauts" by Ashley Phillips, abcnews.go.com. January 23, 2008.

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• When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

  Kate Bush

  Stars, Men, Outer Space

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• [On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public saw with their own eyes how science is done, how a great scientist thinks with his hands, how nature gives a clear answer when a scientist asks her a clear question.

  Freeman Dyson

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

  Joni Mitchell

  Reality, Heaven, Lord

  Song: The Same Situation, Album: Court and Spark

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• 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.

  Burt Rutan

  Creative, Littles, Nasa

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.

  Kay Cannon

  Daughter, Running, Mind

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way!

  Sally Ride

  Girl, Stars, Ocean

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• Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut.

  Robert Schimmel

  Would Be, Way, Asteroids

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• Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.

  Camille Paglia

  Cutting, Epic, Space

  "The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age". Arion Vol. 11, no 3, Spring 2004.

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

  Michael J. Massimino

  Thinking, Risk, Worthwhile

  "NASA Astronaut Discusses Gravity and the Dangers of Spacewalking". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• 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.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Mars, Nasa

  "Buzz Aldrin: America Needs to Set its Sights on Mars" by Robert Montenegro, bigthink.com.

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• Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various companies and for more money (considerably) fly into orbit.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, People, Orbit

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.

  Joan Jett

  Different, Vets, Band

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Anything from making a mistake on an experiment that would ruin some scientist on earth's experiment - career, potentially - to doing something wrong with the satellite that a country was depending on for its communications, to making some mistake that could actually cost you and the crew either a mission or your lives. So there is a lot of pressure that's put on every astronaut to just make sure that he or she understands exactly what to do, exactly when to do it, and is trained and prepared to carry it out.

  Sally Ride

  Country, Mistake, Communication

  "Astronaut Hall of Fame". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 2006.

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• It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.

  Sally Ride

  Girl, Growing Up, Real

  Source: www.dannyskidspage.com

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• The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the whole earth like that big blue marble that was made famous by the flights that went to the moon. But the shuttle is much, much closer than those astronauts were. So we don't see the whole planet, the whole ball at once, we just see parts of it.

  Sally Ride

  Moon, Blue, Views

  Source: www.dannyskidspage.com

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

  Gene Cernan

  People, Trying, Heroic

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• As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.

  Mae Jemison

  Tasks, May, Week

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• At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Book, Moon

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• Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mean, People, Special

  "'Yoga Pants are Ruining Women' and Other Style Advice From Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Kathleen Hale, www.elle.com. March 24, 2015.

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• The most important steps that I followed were studying math and science in school. I was always interested in physics and astronomy and chemistry and I continued to study those subjects through high school and college on into graduate school. That's what prepared me for being an astronaut; it actually gave me the qualifications to be selected to be an astronaut.

  Sally Ride

  School, Math, College

  Source: www.dannyskidspage.com

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• Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Names, People, Waiting

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• Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moon, Men, Thinking

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious it is. It is no coincidence that our awakening to the special nature of our world and to its uniquely balanced environment and its limitations coincided with our first glimpse of earth from outer space, through the eyes of astronauts, television cameras and photographic equipment.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Eye, Technology, Our World

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