Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luca Parmitano

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.

Chris Hadfield

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.

Wendy Kopp

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.

Philippe Perrin

So, everything really came back to my mind in the early 'Eighties when the first French astronaut flew. And then, I restarted to think about it.

The last astronaut left the Moon 32 years ago. It's been far too long and it's time to go back.

Jean Chretien

The seven astronauts on board were accomplished women and men of great courage who put their extraordinary skills and knowledge to the service of humankind,

Henry Spencer

Not until the space shuttle started flying did NASA concede that some astronauts didn't have to be fast-jet pilots. And at that point, sure enough, women started becoming astronauts.

Eileen collins

I leave the astronaut job with great memories but also great expectations for our country's future in space.

Marc Garneau

I submitted my name and after about a six-month competition was lucky enough to be chosen as one of the first six astronauts in Canada.

Michael J. Massimino

I had always been interested in the space program, and I didn't know if I could be an astronaut like I'd dreamt about when I was a little kid - to me it sounded kind of silly, someone grow up to be an astronaut - but, when I was in my 20s, I thought maybe I can get a job with NASA or a contractor, do something with the space program.

James Gray

If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon - the 12 who walked on it, and the others who orbited - all suffered serious mental trauma of one kind or another.

John Phillips

Ever since I've been an astronaut I knew I wanted to do a spacewalk, and it's really comforting to go out with a guy who's done it a lot of times.

The space station was sold to Congress for decades as a lab to do this kind of broad-based research. Now they've started gutting the station just when it is at the point of being able to do all things it was supposed to do. That leaves the purpose of the space station as something for astronauts to fix.

Ellen Ochoa

This was the last astronaut job that was not (yet) done by a woman. Now with this milestone we can focus on the fact that what is important to succeed in life, it does not matter whether you are a man or a woman.

Russia's obligations to its US partners will end in the spring. A Soyuz rocket will then take two Russian cosmonauts... to the ISS. The third place will be reserved either for a space tourist or for an astronaut from the European Space Agency.

It's hard to teach an astronaut to be a surgeon. I'll be the surgeon and they will be the technologists. Devices such as this could be invaluable on long duration space flights where medical personnel and equipment is sparse.

Peter Thiel

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

Andy Weir

Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.

Jodie Foster

Every time I go to leave for work he'll say, 'Are you going to be an astronaut today and find space aliens?' ... I'll say, 'No, honey. No spacesuit for me today.

Trent Reznor

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

Now I know how the astronauts must feel. Maybe I helped them a little bit in the future, but they helped me a lot more.

They struck us as articulate, capable. These kids wanted to be doctors and nurses and engineers and astronauts and then they hit the schoolhouse door and they're confronted with an environment which is not inspiring, not engaging and often disorderly and unsafe.

There's a ham rig on the ISS, and the astronauts love talking to students when they pass over schools.

George H. W. Bush

This is a tragic day for the families of the astronauts and a tragic day for science,

Andy Weir

I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

Neil Armstrong

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

Chris Hadfield

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

The desire to explore has really always been a part of the American spirit and Mars is a new frontier. Its a place where you could someday send astronauts to do that kind of exploration.

Joan Jett

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

Martin Rees

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

Chris Hadfield

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

Robert A. Heinlein

Spacemen die if they stay in one place.