Astronauts Quotes

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

Allah, Become, Earth

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

Through, Approached

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
Dan Quayle

President, Welcome, Fellow

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

Wrong, Off, Getting

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
Sally Ride

Space, Prepared, Accidents

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

Women, Men, Working

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
Sally Ride

Before, Couple, Flight

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

Wrong, Off, Goes

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
Sally Ride

Two, Space, Test

Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
Sally Ride

Sleep, Different, Ways

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

Sleep, Almost, Open

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

Food, Bad, Different

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

Society, Amazing, While

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

Thought, Find, Before

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.
Todd Barry

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

Successful, Focus, Nothing

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

Job, Small, American

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

Great, Job, Different

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

Future, Expect, Citizen

Since there always has to be a certain number of astronauts manning the station at all times, one of the main aspects of the mission was to transport a new team to the station and bring back some members of the previous team back to Earth.
Philippe Perrin

Team, Times, Earth

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.
Philippe Perrin

Problems, Space, Essential

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

Serious, Lives, Prepare

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

Birthday, Around, Until

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

Together, Different, Made

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.
Leroy Chiao

Waiting, Help, Long

I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.
Leroy Chiao

Good, Country, Leader

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

Nation, Actually, United

The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad.
Isabel Yosito

Life, Love, Find

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

Great, Important, Anyone

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

Women, Men, Whether

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