148 Quotes About Astronaut

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.

While we've taken seeds into space, and astronauts on the International Space Station have eaten lettuce they've grown, we haven't produced fruit in space, so we can't pollinate something.

In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.

Not until the space shuttle started flying did NASA concede that some astronauts didn't have to be fast-jet pilots. And at that point, sure enough, women started becoming astronauts.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.

I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

I don't know why, but I read that book and I learned about test flight and the history of the astronaut program and that's when I set it as a lifetime goal. I did not like the movie, but I loved the book.