Astronaut Quotes - Page 2

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.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

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.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it.

Most astronauts are very down-to-earth people. Many of us, three-quarters, have an engineering degree, and we have a very Cartesian, rational approach to things. You don't go and get swept off your feet. That's not your job and that's not why you're hired. So if you get so mesmerized that you forget to do what you're supposed to do, whether it's to open the cargo door of the space shuttle or configure something inside, then you should not be there as a professional operator.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

Astronauts: space activists.

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

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

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

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.

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

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.

Being a leading man... that's like saying I want to be astronaut. That's not going to happen.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Spacemen die if they stay in one place.

The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.

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.