Astronaut Quotes

"I`ve wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I`ve said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy".

It`s fun to know what I want to do - you know, when I grow up. I have friends who say, `Oh, maybe I`ll be an astronaut or whatever.` But it`s cool to want to do this forever. I knew from my first commercial that I wanted to be an actress.

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I`m dying to go to a space camp next summer!

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.

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

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I`d never be an astronaut.

I am an astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey were just jet pilots. I`m in a world of my own.

Whenever I came across something that influenced me, I wanted to be that. So it varied from an astronaut, airhostess, army girl, to truck driver. Once, I wanted to be a nun - my mother wanted me to change schools after that...

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.

Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn`t it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut.

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don`t even like riding in elevators.

When I was nine, I wanted to be an astronaut but at that time there weren`t any Canadian astronauts. You had to be American or Soviet.

And now for Return to Flight, I`m chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I like long-duration space flight and hope my boss will let me do it again, ... I think the age of the true professional astronaut and cosmonaut has come.

the opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.