Quotes About Astronaut

If you're at Kennedy Space Center, the closest you're going to get to a rocket going off is like three and a half miles.

NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space.

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From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.

Did you know I took the first space selfie during Gemini 12 mission in 1966? BEST SELFIE EVER

We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged.

You can't get lost in space

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.

Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth, like gravity, that can make things a bit challenging. One of the fun things about getting here is the zero gravity and floating around. But it also makes things very difficult.

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

I get a call - said, do you want to be an astronaut? I said, oh, my gosh, yes. And he said, be here on Monday to take these tests. I had needles stuck in every part of my body, tubes running up my bottom, so I went along with it. It didn't bother me.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

I watch a lot of astronaut movies....Mostly Star Wars. And even Han and Chewie use a checklist.

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.

Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.

As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

When I was in kindergarten, I remember looking at picture books of the space shuttle.

The basic thing you have to understand is everything that happens on that spaceship, from the time you crawl into that seat to the time it touches down, is controlled from the ground. There's no one thing that makes a good astronaut. I don't know any person with determination and will that can't go to space.

Walking in space is absolutely the most exhilarating part of a mission. The view is just incredible.

There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with.

The moon is very rugged.