#astronaut

Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.' ↗

— Kalpana Chawla

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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

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#astronaut #design #end #first #flight

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

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

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch. ↗

— Edgar D. Mitchell

#moon #politics #science #space #science

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

— Muhammad Ali

#astronaut #boxing #dempsey #i #i am

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#anything #anyway #astronaut #fight #great

Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program. ↗

— David M. Brown

#although #astronaut #boy #call #completely

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. ↗

— David Byrne

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