Famous quotes by Astronauts

"The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security"

John Glenn, Astronaut

"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, Astronaut

"Zero G and I feel fine"

John Glenn, Astronaut

"By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning"

John Glenn, Astronaut

"This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century"

John Glenn, Astronaut

"We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world"

Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all"

Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job"

James A. Lovell, Astronaut

"I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different"

Story Musgrave, Astronaut

"If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun"

Michael P. Anderson, Astronaut

"On both of my flights, everything went very well"

Sally Ride, Astronaut

"Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists"

James Newman, Astronaut

"Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician"

Chris Hadfield, Astronaut

"Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!"

Yuri Gagarin, Astronaut

"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit"

Robert Crippen, Astronaut

"I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well"

Leroy Chiao, Astronaut

"If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?"

Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut

"Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going"

Pete Conrad, Astronaut

"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is"

Philippe Perrin, Astronaut

"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell"

Frank Borman, Astronaut

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