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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

quote by Sally Ride
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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.

quote by Shannon Lucid
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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.

quote by David M. Brown
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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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Buzz Aldrin, Space Imperialist

Buzz Aldrin, Space Imperialist,
discovers a tiny brown lesion
on the end of his nose.
he uses his wife’s
concave make up mirror
to examine it more closely
and confirms his worse suspicions:
It’s malignant.
Coolly, he makes
one appointment with his dermatologist
and another in Samara.
After brushing his teeth
he takes another look
at the tiny brown Angel of Death.
It flakes off
-a brown booger.
Buzz cancels his appointments
and craves a celebratory drink terribly,
but summons his fantastic will power
and resists the urge.

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poem by Percy Dovetonsils
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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

quote by Sally Ride
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

quote by Dan Quayle
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I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

quote by Todd Barry
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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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