1.
Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any.
Sunita Williams
"Don't be confined by the idea of constraints. There are none."
3.
At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.
Scott Carpenter
4.
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.
Gene Cernan
5.
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.
Gene Cernan
6.
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.
Terence McKenna
8.
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
Wernher von Braun
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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
10.
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
11.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
Neil Armstrong
12.
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
13.
The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.
Julie Payette
14.
Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.
Duane G. Carey
15.
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
16.
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.
Eddie Izzard
17.
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
David Byrne
18.
Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
Joan Jett
19.
Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.
Sanford Biggers
20.
I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
Sally Ride
21.
I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food.
Will Ferrell
22.
"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.
Chris Hadfield
23.
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
25.
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.
Kevin A. Ford
26.
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
27.
There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
John L. Phillips
28.
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
29.
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
31.
One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
Sally Ride
32.
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.
Julie Payette
33.
Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.
Gore Vidal
34.
I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.
Chris Hadfield
35.
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.
Sylvia Earle
36.
Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.
Andy Weir
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Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it.
Richard Branson
38.
More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.
Bill Maher
40.
I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.
Michael J. Massimino
41.
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.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
42.
I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident
Eileen Collins
43.
When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.
Kate Bush
46.
Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.
Ben Lerner
47.
Being a leading man... that's like saying I want to be astronaut. That's not going to happen.
Steve Carell
48.
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
Buzz Aldrin
49.
If there'd been an astronaut on the moon right then, I'm sure I could have seen him. Perhaps he could have looked down and seen me too... the only one who could.
Lucy Christopher
50.
I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
William Shatner