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So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary. Luca Parmitano
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When I was nine, I wanted to be an astronaut but at that time there weren't any Canadian astronauts. You had to be American or Soviet. So many things will be possible in your lifetimes. Chris Hadfield
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Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon. Wendy Kopp
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Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth, like gravity, that can make things a bit challenging. One of the fun things about getting here is the zero gravity and floating around. But it also makes things very difficult. Kevin A. Ford
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We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.
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We had a young team and we had a lot of sophomores who got a lot of quality playing time. We have quickness and speed and have athletes coming. I don't see why Astronaut couldn't be in the state playoffs this upcoming year or the next year.
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I always wanted to be an astronaut. Dennis Quaid
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My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.
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I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me. Taylor Wilson
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Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile. Ellen Ochoa
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We are kind of the sport utility vehicle in this thing. (Our) job is to get the astronauts off the surface of the Earth. The fun stuff happens when you get to the lunar surface.
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On my watch, I've been privileged to peer into the future of dynamic citizen astronauts routinely flying to and from the heavens. Dana Rohrabacher
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate. P. J. O'Rourke
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I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way. Mary Roach
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I don't know why, but I read that book and I learned about test flight and the history of the astronaut program and that's when I set it as a lifetime goal. I did not like the movie, but I loved the book. Jeffrey Williams
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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
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Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut. Duane G. Carey
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I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars. David Mackay
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There is an increased chance of blackouts due to magnetic currents on the power grids. This also creates more hazards for astronauts traveling through space.
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In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, 'There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.'
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We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was - I'd already been an astronaut for a decade when the crew of Columbia was killed. And I went through test pilot school. Rick Husband and I were out at Edwards at test pilot school together. He was the commander of Columbia.
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Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.
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We had about 23 guys in the astronaut office and they would have all killed to be on that first flight. John Young
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Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.
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Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station. Martin Rees
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Recently people put together this panorama from the moon and you can see as if you are turning 360 degrees around. And so there's this wow factor. You can look as if you were standing on the moon and see what the astronauts saw.
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Reliability index of the rocket has been improved to 0.97 and the safety index of astronauts to 0.997.
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Orbital capsule is the place for astronauts to live and work during their space flight.
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In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did. Henry Spencer
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We've lost 14 astronauts and $5 billion in hardware with upgrades, Ernest Hollings
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While we've taken seeds into space, and astronauts on the International Space Station have eaten lettuce they've grown, we haven't produced fruit in space, so we can't pollinate something. Helen Sharman
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We hope that the Brazilian astronaut will fly at the end of March next year ... The cost of the contract as always is up to $20 million.