148 Quotes About Astronaut

So, everything really came back to my mind in the early 'Eighties when the first French astronaut flew. And then, I restarted to think about it.

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

Reliability index of the rocket has been improved to 0.97 and the safety index of astronauts to 0.997.

On my watch, I've been privileged to peer into the future of dynamic citizen astronauts routinely flying to and from the heavens.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

We had a young team and we had a lot of sophomores who got a lot of quality playing time. We have quickness and speed and have athletes coming. I don't see why Astronaut couldn't be in the state playoffs this upcoming year or the next year.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.