815 quotes by astronauts for you to enjoy

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. John Glenn

Beautiful Day You Space Seen Say Sunsets About Could Know Which Four

The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless. John Glenn

People Space Matters Research Station Possibilities Most Built Materials Laboratory Endless Space Station Reason Unique Ever Medical Nearly

I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place. John Glenn

Good People Money Space Research Think Back Alive Out Bad See Some Purpose Bad Times Although How How Far Go Times Going Just Space Program Place Them Far Exploration Certainly Whole Even Keep Bring Program

I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that. John Glenn

War Myself World Too Much Fly Thought Made Too Changed Airplane Hooked Would Would-Be Able Cost Never Along Came Model Then Much Aviation World War World War II

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing. John Glenn

You Fear Something Doing Interferes

I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador. John Glenn

Supported Arms Salvador Efforts Stop El Salvador Across Nicaragua Flow Honduras

To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit. John Glenn

Me Our Ability Never Orbit Exploited Really

As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others. John Glenn

Will Others Analyze Attention Leave Trying As Far As Far Received

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7. John Glenn

Friendship You Space Air See Go Burn Patterns Washington Museum

One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail. John Glenn

I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future. John Glenn

Future Say Jobs America American American Jobs Gamble

We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth. John Glenn

Space Value Everybody Earth Around Up Just Right Things Here

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut. John Glenn

Space Research Projects Had Covered Different Flight Whole Last

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be. John Glenn

Space Valuable Research Project Though Select Merely Scientists Handful May Information Interest Specialists Conquest Technological

I have no political affiliations and have always and do now consider myself an independent. John Glenn

Myself Political Consider Independent Always Now

I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like. John Glenn

Late-Night Television Out Find Combat Like Movie Watch

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig. John L. Phillips

Science Space Mind Will Job Crew Crew Members Our Those Guinea Guinea Pig Focusing Guinea Pigs Members Fine Take Part Longer Pig Pigs Going Human Being Experiments Which Us Farther Many Things

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration. John L. Phillips

Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways. John L. Phillips

Time Day People Research Our Ways Those Visits Only Support Maintenance Piece Scientific Ready Scientific Research Still Lot Where Different Board Working Working Day Large Even Different Ways Shuttle Two Two People

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't. John L. Phillips

Robot Crew Complete Complex More Vehicle Arms Orbit Maybe After Room Assembly Specialists Now Larger Right

Quotes by Astronauts