astronaut Quotes and Quotations
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astronaut Quotes and Quotations
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I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. David Byrne | top
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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 | top
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There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful. Leroy Chiao | top
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I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs. Gordon Cooper | top
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I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us. Robert Crippen | top
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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 | top
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And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal. Umberto Guidoni | top
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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 | top
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I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies. Christa McAuliffe | top
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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 | top
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I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever. Philippe Perrin | top
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I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts. Philippe Perrin | top
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It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected. John L. Phillips | top
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There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday. John L. Phillips | top
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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 | top
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways. Sally Ride | top
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. Sally Ride | top
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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 | top
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom. Sally Ride | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. Sidney Sheldon | top
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Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. Alan Shepard | top
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To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. Adlai Stevenson | top
