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I personally look forward to building the Orion. I believe that our country needs to pursue that technology.
My sister called me "Buzzard" when I was a baby - she couldn't say "Brother" so I've been Buzz my whole life.
[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.
I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.
We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.
We run the programs, and we support them through all of our folks, but usually the hardware is somewhere else.
There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.
Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.
I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.
Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.
In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!
Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.
In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.
As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.
The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.
Do your homework in advance about the actual travel details so transportation issues do not define your holiday.
When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.
When you look at the darkest areas in space, you feel that there's something out there that we don't know about.
When any part of the Station is moved from its designated location to do a repair, we really risk losing things.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.
When I was up on my first flight, we were really putting it together. So, I was essentially a construction worker.
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction
I met Betty Moore when she entered Mitchell High School as a freshman, and that was it - period, exclamation point!
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
By looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, you can fundamentally change your reaction.
The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It's time we build a rocket and go to stay.
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.
Once you get into the spacecraft, you're on your way, you've got a mission, you're focused, and it's really exciting.
The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.