Quotes about astronauts
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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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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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We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.
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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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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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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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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. Chris Hadfield
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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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Our astronauts are safely back home, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is safely on its way to Mars. Orlando Figueroa
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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.
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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.
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This is a tragic day for the families of the astronauts and a tragic day for science, George H. W. Bush
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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.
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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.
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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, Jean Chretien
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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.
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Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon. Peter Thiel
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There's a ham rig on the ISS, and the astronauts love talking to students when they pass over schools.
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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. James Gray
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I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above. Andy Weir
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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. Marc Garneau
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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.