Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wally Schirra

As a Naval officer, I was trained, essentially bred, to be a military aviator. I was a Naval officer on assignment, not an employee of NASA.

James Lovell

The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.

James Newman

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

Duane G. Carey

I've always been, since I was fairly young, I've been interested in motorcycles and have owned them and ridden them and raced them, things like that.

Duane G. Carey

So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.

Duane G. Carey

Obviously, as a jet fighter pilot, everybody looks forward to the ascent; all that power, you know, that seven million pounds of thrust going uphill.

Claude Nicollier

I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission.

Leroy Chiao

But it's also a lot of hard work, and it's a long time to be away from your family and friends. So I had a lot of different feelings.

Duane G. Carey

But, I have to tell you that, astronauts, rookie astronauts after they land, they say that they found the training to be more than adequate.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.