#astronaut

I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars. ↗

— David M. Brown

#astronauts #coolest #coolest thing #could #growing

Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#case #deciding #me #really #well

I remember the first time I fogged up your astronaut’s helmet. That night we made space like outer love. But I kept it cool like Coors Light in the fridge, even though I felt heavy and cramped in your chilled kitchen appliance. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #random #funny

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#astronaut #found #genie #her #history

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#astronaut #being #best #better #business

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#assistant #astronaut #charge #computers #fact

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken. ↗

— Ulrich Walter

#back #confidence #every #flew #i

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#born #eye #i #i was born #late

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

#astronauts #i #i think #just #men

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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