Top Astronaut Quotes
Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.
Alan Shepard
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
Mark Haddon
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
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
John L. Phillips
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
John L. Phillips 
Adlai Stevenson 
Ellen Ochoa 
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Linda M. Godwin 
Duane G. Carey 
David Byrne 
Christa McAuliffe 
Shia LaBeouf 
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Alan Shepard All Astronaut Quotes
Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.
Alan Shepard 
70% of people like this quote
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
Mark Haddon
62% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
John L. Phillips
58% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.
John L. Phillips
56% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
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