#astronaut

In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

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

— Duane G. Carey

#case #deciding #me #really #well

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

#astronauts #becoming #china #course #following

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut. ↗

— John L. Phillips

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It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#astronaut #before #fact #get #i

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#always #astronaut #attended #based #because

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

— Todd Barry

#astronauts #comedians #i #know #lot

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things. ↗

— Joan Jett

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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

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