#astronaut

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#back #called #cancelled #ended #got

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 think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#deep #deep inside #doing #got #i

Since there always has to be a certain number of astronauts manning the station at all times, one of the main aspects of the mission was to transport a new team to the station and bring back some members of the previous team back to Earth. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#aspects #astronauts #back #bring #certain

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

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

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#any #around #astronauts #birthday #i

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#along #astronaut #corps #enabled #good