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Astronauts: space activists. -- Frank Borman
Astronauts: rotarians in outer space. -- Gore Vidal
Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble. -- Andy Weir
Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities. -- Buzz Aldrin
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos. -- Mary Roach
I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above. -- Andy Weir
Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives. -- Ellen Ochoa
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought. -- Eric Frank Russell
Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background. -- Buzz Aldrin
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
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job. -- Paul Davies
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
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. -- Dan Quayle
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. -- Eugene Cernan
Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh. -- Steven Wright
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. -- Sally Ride
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. -- Sally Ride
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. -- Sally Ride
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
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
I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting. -- Jim Lovell
Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.' -- Kalpana Chawla
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
Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox. -- Michio Kaku
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
Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage. -- Eugene Cernan
It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States. -- Brad Sherman
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there. -- Barbara Walters
It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth. -- Michio Kaku
The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings. -- Buzz Aldrin
There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself. -- Chris Hadfield
For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience. -- Douglas Brinkley
I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars? -- Buzz Aldrin
I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction. -- Adam Driver
The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself! -- Burt Rutan
To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically. -- Buzz Aldrin
Different astronauts sleep in different ways. -- Sally Ride
We are all astronauts on spaceship earth -- Wubbo Ockels
Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row. -- Joni Mitchell
Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms. -- Ben Lerner
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. -- Eugene Cernan
I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts. -- Demetri Martin
More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013. -- Bill Maher
"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts. -- Chris Hadfield
I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about. -- Daniel Handler
I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through. -- William Shatner
The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad. -- Isabel Yosito
I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians. -- Todd Barry
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. -- Gene Roddenberry
There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday. -- John L. Phillips
I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts. -- Philippe Perrin
I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts -- Philippe Perrin
I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile. -- Michael J. Massimino
I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs. -- Gordon Cooper
At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs. -- Scott Carpenter
Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level. -- Julie Payette
After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline, -- Dmitry Rogozin
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
I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people to pursue their dreams. -- Mark Shuttleworth
President Obama is launching a new $6 billion space policy that will ultimately take astronauts to Mars. Of course, it's $6 billion and $45 if the astronauts have a carry-on. -- Jimmy Fallon
NASA is developing space taxis to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station. And just like New York taxis, they're all going to be driven by aliens. -- Jimmy Fallon
How come, just as the rocket is launching, the astronauts don't also shoot some fireworks out the window? It would make the whole takeoff look more impressive. -- Jack Handey
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
If you look at astronauts closely, their eyes look kind of puffy. And it gives you this mild headache. But one of the advantages of that, if you will. -- Mike Mullane
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. -- Henry Spencer
The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star. -- Mike Mullane
The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me. -- Ray Romano
I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so. -- Leroy Chiao
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
I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts. -- Shannon Lucid
Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, "The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005 -- Stephen Colbert
On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars. -- Neal Shusterman
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future. -- Dana Rohrabacher
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. -- Martin Rees
NASA appreciates the efforts of Congress to resolve restrictions placed on our partnership with Russia. Congress' action helps to ensure the continuous presence of U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station. -- Michael D. Griffin
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go. -- John Updike
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
No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers. -- William E. Burrows
Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting -- Bruce Willis
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train. -- Tom Peters
Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could do the same. So why haven't they come to Earth? -- Enrico Fermi
It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it. -- Chris Hadfield
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
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
I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor. -- Tony Revolori
I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars. -- David M. Brown
We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves. -- Ray Bradbury
The 20-G Centrifuge is our largest facility certified for use by humans. Its capabilities make it a unique NASA resource and a very versatile research tool that is ideal for developing health-maintenance activities for astronauts. -- Jeff Smith

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