Astronaut Quotes

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

I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

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

To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.

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

The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut.

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

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.

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

The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

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

You’ve got to believe you can be a standup before you can be a standup. You have to believe you can act before you can act. You have to believe you can be an astronaut before you can be an astronaut. You’ve got to believe.

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.

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

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

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.

We are all astronauts on spaceship earth

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

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

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

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.

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...

Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.

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

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

"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

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

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.

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

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

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

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

Astronauts: space activists.

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

Most astronauts are very down-to-earth people. Many of us, three-quarters, have an engineering degree, and we have a very Cartesian, rational approach to things. You don't go and get swept off your feet. That's not your job and that's not why you're hired. So if you get so mesmerized that you forget to do what you're supposed to do, whether it's to open the cargo door of the space shuttle or configure something inside, then you should not be there as a professional operator.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

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

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

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts.

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.

Spacemen die if they stay in one place.

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

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.

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.

The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.