I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.
There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first wom...
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.'
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.
I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.
Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.
When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.
I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.
I meet people to know I’m not alone. I network like an astronaut on the moon.
Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death.
Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed. People may still feel lonely even among the crowd.
Man allowed by God to do good and evil. That's why some of angels feel so jealous.
God created many races wilier than men. But it doesn't mean angels higher than us.
