#astronaut

The Doctor: Doctor Song, you've got that face on again. River: What face? The Doctor: The "He's hot when he's clever" face. River: This is my normal face. The Doctor: Yes it is. River: Oh, shut up. The Doctor: Not a chance. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#impossible-astronaut #chance

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

#astronauts #did #different #great #great job

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

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#aside #astronaut #astronauts #could #done

I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#bit #competition #competitive #country #good

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#area #astronaut #career #chemical #course

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#background #common #corps #desire #discovery

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency. ↗

— Sally Ride

#case #during #emergency #goes #helps

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#anything #astronaut #being #else #everyone