Quotes About Astronauts

I remember looking at the moon as an 8-year-old and marveling that there were two astronauts in a lander on the surface, getting ready to go out and actually walk. That settled it for me: I knew I was going to at least try to become an astronaut. I wanted to be like those guys.

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.

There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

Ever since the environmental movement was sparked by photos of the whole Earth taken by astronauts onboard Apollo Lunar Modules, I've seen planetary exploration as an extension of a reverence and care for Earth.

As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.

Tiangong 1, our home in space, was comfortable and pleasant.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

We're astronauts. All of the expedition members have been astronauts.

Dead astronauts were no different than living astronauts. Neither could shed their skin. Neither could ever become part of what they journeyed through. Suits were premade coffins. Space was the grave. Better to think of yourself as dead already. There was freedom in that; liberated the mind to roam quadrants farther than the body.

I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

Well, we're on the Moon.

We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

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.

being a scientist can be dangerous. Expert pathogen seekers have lost their lives trying to combat diseases. We've lost astronauts in reentry and ocean explorers to the depths of the sea.

When I review my travels among the astronauts, my mind's eye goes first to the Houston shopping mall where Alan Bean sat for hours after returning from space, just eating ice cream and watching the people swirl around him, enraptured by the simple yet miraculous fact they they were there and alive in that moment, and so was he.

I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.

Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

The biggest technical challenge to sending astronauts on farther and longer missions is biomedical: How do we keep them healthy?

But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.

Houston, we've had a problem here. Houston, we've had a problem.

When we meet people who are astronauts or deal in astronomy, it's always really fascinating.