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I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps. -- Duane G. Carey
In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things. -- Linda M. Godwin
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. -- David Byrne
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. -- Muhammad Ali
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
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. -- Ellen Ochoa
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
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
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
Different astronauts sleep in different ways. -- Sally Ride
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. -- Dan Quayle
I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food. -- Will Ferrell
I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college. -- Sally Ride
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. -- Sally Ride
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin -- Clive Barker
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
And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career. -- Duane G. Carey
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'. -- Mary Roach
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
When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah. -- Cat Stevens
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember. -- Neil Armstrong
Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program. -- David M. Brown
Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends. -- Michael J. Massimino
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
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. -- Neil Armstrong
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
I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it. -- John L. Phillips
I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself. -- Laurel Clark
And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian. -- Chris Hadfield
Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman. -- Trent Reznor
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. -- Neil Armstrong
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week. -- Mae Jemison
I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring. -- Buzz Aldrin
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
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. -- Eugene Cernan
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. -- Nayvadius Cash
I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service. -- Buzz Aldrin
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.' -- Chris Hadfield
As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, or marine biologist, but I clearly was drawn to the ocean and to the water. -- Brian Skerry
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president. -- Rachel Corrie
The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut. -- Caroline Knapp
Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges. -- Mae Jemison
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
My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind. -- Shia LaBeouf
I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company. -- Mae Jemison
On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president. -- Dee Dee Myers
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. -- Chris Hadfield
I always wanted to be an astronaut. -- Dennis Quaid
I've secretly always wanted to be an astronaut. -- Denzel Whitaker
I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut. -- Jacqueline Cochran
If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut. -- Robert Crais
I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident -- Eileen Collins
The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few. -- Julie Payette
I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut. -- Duane G. Carey
I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain. -- Eva Amurri
One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure. -- Sally Ride
I wasnâ??t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one. -- Chris Hadfield
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. -- Ice T
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. -- Ice T
I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut. -- Bill Maris
Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. -- Robert Duvall
Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars. -- Sanford Biggers
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut. -- John L. Phillips
Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut?? -- Fran Lebowitz
Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen. -- Steve Carell
Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it. -- Richard Branson
I watch a lot of astronaut movies....Mostly Star Wars. And even Han and Chewie use a checklist. -- Jon Stewart
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. -- Mark Haddon
Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things. -- Joan Jett
Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut. -- Artie Lange
Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also. -- Claude Nicollier
As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes. -- Chris Hadfield
When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right. -- Kate Bush
I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut. -- Dennis Quaid
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
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff. -- Tom Hanks
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
I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut. -- Joey Comeau
There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut. -- Analeigh Tipton
It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life? -- Paul McCartney
To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over. -- Chris Hadfield
I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been. -- John Glenn
There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play. -- Patrick J. Adams
She has a body for years, and I have an astronaut tan. When we make love it will be like (x + 2)(2x -1) = 0, solve for x. -- Jarod Kintz
Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing. -- Peter Benchley
The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill. -- David M. Brown
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
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together. -- Michael J. Massimino
I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy -- Natalie Portman
I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid. -- Bryan Cranston
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
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
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators. -- Bill Watterson
I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained. -- Chuck Yeager
Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various companies and for more money (considerably) fly into orbit. -- Buzz Aldrin
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
My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that. -- Berenice Bejo
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
Square astronaut, round hole. But somehow, I'd managed to push myself through it, and here was the truly amazing part: along the way, I'd become a good fit. It had only taken 21 years. -- Chris Hadfield
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
Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut. -- Robert Schimmel
You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a historian. You believe these things because they're facts, proved by evidence. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Eugene Cernan
Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken. -- Ulrich Walter
I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars. -- Colin Firth
After years of training [as astronaut], you have great confidence in the technology. When you get in your car, you probably feel safe too, even though thousands of people die in car crashes every year. -- Ulrich Walter

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