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. — Gene Cernan
Going to space doesn’t make you an astronaut. Being an astronaut means you’re ready to go to space. — Michael J. Massimino
Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it. — Christina Koch
To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones. — Roberta Bondar
When I was eight years old to be a spaceman was the most exciting thing I could imagine. — Roberta Bondar
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. — Muhammad Ali
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky. — Valentina Tereshkova
When you go into space, you become obsessed with the Earth. — Yusaku Maezawa
Traveling outside of Earth, I get this feeling of being part of mankind. So we do not represent only our countries in space; it’s an international adventure. — Sergei Krikalev
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. — Neil Armstrong
Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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
We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians. — Edgar Mitchell
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. — Sally Ride
Short Astronaut Quotes
Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any. — Sunita Williams
Space can be fun, depending on who you are with. — Sergei Krikalev
I do feel entirely safe in a spacecraft. — Edward Higgins White
I would go back in a heartbeat [to ISS]. — Tim Peake
We’ve learned a great deal. And that’s why you fly a test flight, so you can learn. — John Young
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. — Mark Haddon
It felt like the most natural thing in the world to do [to fly a plane at age 6]. — Edward Higgins White
The sea [and space] is a hostile environment, so people help each other to fight with nature. — Sergei Krikalev
Knowing that you were going to fly to the moon, walk on the moon, defies description… — Fred Haise
Space Flight Quotes
Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development. — Yuri Gagarin
To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more? — Yuri Gagarin
The road between South Carolina and space flight is not a very simple one. Nor is it one filled with guarantees. — Ronald McNair
My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned me to look beyond man-made boundaries and prejudices. One does not have to undertake a space flight to come by this feeling. — Rakesh Sharma
Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and the universe. — Lisa Nowak
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport. — Neil H. McElroy
Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful! — Gabriele d'Annunzio
The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life. — Sally Ride
With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away. — Wernher Von Braun
If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried. — Alan Shepard
Nasa Quotes
My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet. — Franklin Chang Diaz
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station. — James Lovelock
What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy. — Michio Kaku
For NASA, space is still a high priority. — Dan Quayle
Obviously I’d like NASA to follow their charter – the exploration of our solar system and beyond. I’d like to see people someday go to Mars. — Fred Haise
Unlike NASA, the Russians don’t feel the drama of the countdown is necessary. — Scott Kelly
I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist. — Peggy Whitson
The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends. — Wernher Von Braun
NASA has never launched a mission just because it “sounded like a good idea,” and neither should you. — Pat Flynn
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years. — Robert Ballard
Space Medicine Quotes
Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated. — Wernher Von Braun
I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality. — Wernher Von Braun
Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face. — Malcolm Gladwell
All you have to do is send a message or somehow establish communication between the mind and body of the sick person. The mind should be in peace, so that the body can do the job. That's all the cure is. The body cures itself. Medicine allows it to get into that space where healing can take place. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography. — Lisette Model
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked. — Bob Barr
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated creature, man. Yet man has the ability to resolve this paradox through his intellectual power and creative faculties. — Hubertus Strughold
It is not too farfetched that soon it will be possible for a physician to send the electrocardiogram and the heart sound via communication satellite to a distant heart specialist for diagnosis and consultation. — Hubertus Strughold
If someday rockets should open the gates to space, then we must be oriented as to its environmental conditions and their possible biological effects. To study this, and to find means of protection, is one of the tasks of space medicine. — Hubertus Strughold
You can say that this is just what aerospace medicine is all about - to save the lives of the men who climb to the high reaches above the Earth and beyond this planet. — Martin Caidin
Space Travel Quotes
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. — John Glenn
When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! — Yuri Gagarin
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. — William S. Burroughs
Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now. — Sylvia Earle
If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space. — Stephen Hunt
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option. — Wilson Greatbatch
Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation. — Ellison Onizuka
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. We've talked about it before and speculated about it, and it finally has occurred. We hoped we could push this day back forever. — John Glenn
Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye. — Clement Greenberg
This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful. — Hermann Oberth
International Space Station Quotes
I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space. — Peggy Whitson
Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue. — Marc Garneau
Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space. — Marc Garneau
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
Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond. — Ben Parr
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
I think there's going to be a very sudden shift in people's perception of the International Space Station, because suddenly it's going to look much, much bigger than it already is. — Marc Garneau
The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a sailboat: privacy and fresh produce are in short supply, hygiene is basic, and a fair amount of the crew's time is spent just on maintaining and repairing the craft. — Chris Hadfield
When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment. — Laurel Clark
If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Space Program Quotes
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. — Gus Grissom
There’s always something to do in the space program. It’s so varied. You don’t do the same thing twice in any given moment of any day. — John Young
Deep Learning is a form of human-assisted but mostly constraint-driven software development. It works because a particular smooth relaxation of program space allows a surprisingly efficient and effective local search. Something like that, my favorite definition. — Andrej Karpathy
If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen. — Gus Grissom
Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people. — Buzz Aldrin
I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men. — Valentina Tereshkova
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further. — Wernher von Braun
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go further. — Wernher Von Braun
If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done. — Christa McAuliffe
If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years. — Wernher Von Braun
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. — John Glenn
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
Over the next five years, DARPA’s biohybrid programs advanced at an astonishing pace. Microprocessor technology was doubling in capacity every eighteen months. By June 29, 2007, when Apple rereleased its first-generation iPhone, Americans could now carry in their pockets more technology than NASA had when it sent astronauts to the moon. — Annie Jacobsen
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
On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious. — Edgar Mitchell
I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model. — Peggy Whitson
There is a fine line between ritual and superstition, and in a life-threatening business such as spaceflight, superstition can be comforting even to the nonbeliever. — Scott Kelly
As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business. — Fred Haise
I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration. — Peggy Whitson
I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future career! — Fred Haise
The moon is a very nice place. When we landed, we were 20 minutes behind. Because time on the Moon was so precious, what I remember most is trying to catch up. — John Young
To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing. — Peggy Whitson
A lot of us here on earth are getting pretty curious about what the moon’s made of, and you’ll never satisfy man’s curiosity unless a man goes himself. — Edward Higgins White
My biggest emotion on Apollo 13 after the oxygen tank explosion was disappointment that we had lost the landing. — Fred Haise
My hope is that Stennis will continue to pioneer in the future those advanced propulsion systems that will take us to Mars and beyond. — Fred Haise
I figure if a farmer’s daughter from Iowa can become an astronaut, you can be just about anything you want to be. — Peggy Whitson
I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs. — Gordon Cooper
I don’t even remember a time when I didn’t want to be an astronaut. I’ve always been into things like exploring and science on the frontiers. — Christina Koch
I thought ‘hey, why not brush my teeth on the Cupola’ then I saw the Milky Way like I’ve never seen it before. — Tim Peake
I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game. — Kawhi Leonard
While you’re in space, you grow in height! Without the constant force of gravity on your spine, it stretches out, and you’re actually taller when you land. — Christina Koch
So ignore the naysayers, ignore the people who say you can’t become an astronaut. Instead use it as motivation. — Peggy Whitson
We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth. — William Anders
They are all my Astro brothers and sisters, and we always have each other’s backs. — Christina Koch
Seeing the Earth for the first time in orbit, you will be surprised that you never noticed the quality and texture of colors. — Peggy Whitson
We worked six months trying to get the space station in better shape. We had a very interesting mission and I hope your mission is interesting as well. — Sergei Krikalev
We are like family, which is important because we may one day be crew members in space, where that trust and confidence is so important. — Christina Koch
I have been blessed with some really special crewmates. Being able to be a really integral member of the team, no matter what role I was in, was truly special. — Peggy Whitson
The job itself is very interesting for me, being there and being able to look back on Earth, to do something challenging… that is what’s important. — Sergei Krikalev
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