I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.
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I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.
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Chloroform The One You Love
And if I couldn't attain
All I need to explain
Would she even look me in the eye again
She sits back and ignores
My need to adore
Intimidations got me down again
She's only 18 but such a beautiful dream
All she needs is some chloroform
And she'll be mine
Chloroform the one
song performed by by Flickerstick from Welcoming Home The Astronauts
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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The next level in moral behavior higher than that exhibited by the baboon is that in which duty and loyalty are shown toward a group of your own kind too large for an individual to know all of them. We have a name for that. It is called "patriotism." Behaving on a still higher moral level were the astronauts who went to the Moon, for their actions tend toward the survival of the entire race of mankind. The door they opened leads to the hope that H. sapiens will survive indefinitely long, even longer than this solid planet on which we stand tonight. As a direct result of what they did, it is now possible that the human race will never die. Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
quote by Robert Heinlein
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Global effect
The sun has got rusty
The tin-flaked light can wound deadly
The leafless trees have broken down
Their propeller engines.
Elongated people, full of holes
Penetrated by birds and pressing machines
Lie down on stretchers of the zebra crossing
To die.
Speakers sing
Astronauts screw stars
Computers count
The supreme failure.
And that is all,
Boredom stifles the vital enthusiasm
Distributed globally
And statistically.
poem by Rodica Elena Lupu from The Moment (2010), translated by Lilica Vanţ
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There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
quote by John L. Phillips
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I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.
quote by Philippe Perrin
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And The War Goes On...
Evolution, Revolution,
Atom bomb, Vietnam.
Television, exorcism,
Mao Se Tung, communism.
I'll watch the front,
You watch my back,
Fighting hard while in Iraq.
People dying in this war,
I can't take it anymore.
Robin Hood...He did good,
Drive by's in the neighborhood.
Kids growing up too fast,
Dying from a rocket blast.
JFK...Camelot,
Sniper fire...Deadly shot.
Astronauts on the moon,
Fighting hole...There's little room.
Ham and eggs, soda pop,
Dried out fields, farmers lose a crop.
People running here and there,
Soldiers dying everywhere.
Can you feel our pain?
Its here we must remain!
And the war goes on......
poem by Philip Lore
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
quote by Sally Ride
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.
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When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap.
quote by Mike Judge
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Astronauts Must We Be
astronauts must we always be
the moment something goes wrong
with a kiss
that is as cold as frozen beef
we tell in a dramatic
manner:
' i need space, my dear'
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
quote by Leroy Chiao
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The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad.
quote by Isabel Yosito
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I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!
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How come, just as the rocket is launching, the astronauts don't also shoot some fireworks out the window It would make the whole takeoff look more impressive.
Jack Handey in Deep Thoughts
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