I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

quote by Muhammad Ali
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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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Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

quote by Claude Nicollier
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D'yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?

I haven't seen your face round
Since I was a kid
You're bringing back those memories
Of the thing that we did
You're hangin round
And climbing trees
Pretending to fly
D'yer wanna be a spaceman
And live in the sky

You got how many bills to pay
And how many kids
And you forgot about
The things that we did
The town where we're living
Has made you a man
And all of your dreams
Are washed away in the sand

Well it's alright

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song performed by Oasis
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It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

quote by John L. Phillips
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And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

quote by Chris Hadfield
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Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

quote by Neil Patrick Harris
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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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We Are The Horsemen

As we search for black people and white people
Seeking the world of the four horsemen facing
John, henry, the robot, dr. smith, and will robinson
Come in please -- on track for the remix
[kool keith]
Adjusting our systems the horsemen are ready to go
Our jets, should be ready for take off, any second
Aheheheheheheheh!
I probe for evidence, movin, positive beams
Incite the first gadget, my atom explodes
Just hit the fifth planet, the x reload
Take a brother on a flight for the alpha, omega
I kick lyrics on earth, you think i'm cosmic
A spacewalker, dippin in my spacecraft
Through molecules, a steel wall interphase
The fourth horseman, legendary universe
Dark shadow human rhymin on a funky verse
I'm level 7, optimus pull back
Feeding the world of gamma data, to locate
You interlock, power 7 warp speed

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song performed by Ultramagnetic Mc's
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

quote by Sally Ride
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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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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

quote by Sally Ride
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Luck In Space

It was pure luck of survival, before the event,
The whole journey was plenty of protein;
A few wanted a launch into space, an universe
Of authority that terribly spoke to the sun.
Stars followed and pattered due to light,
Smart accusations to aliens were made.
A deadly slow space-craft was the effect,
Helmets were worn to save a crew of special captains.

Then survival became essential, like the fog,
It crept and dismayed me as a work of craft;
The vessels of space supplied me with fortune,
My fuel for the fire became the sun and stars.

So much the better. The astronauts were readier,
Without their cricket and gold on Earth.
A few hours in space meant a century,
For time became slow for some reason.
The dead spacemen had to be found for they lived
Among the stars for all eternity.

poem by Naveed Akram
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Superhumans

Once in a while, the time will come
To surrender everything you have to give
Once in a while, the time will come
To surrender everything you have to give
I would have given up for you
I know theyre gonna bump and collide
Im sure theres planets wrapped up with you
Ive seen them kissing out in the hallway
Once in a while, the zebras run
To the spaceman and his gun, in the spiders web
Once in a while, the zebras run
To the spaceman and his gun, in the spiders web
I would have given up for you
I know theyre gonna bump and collide
Im sure theres plannets wrapped up with you
Ive seen them kissing out in the hallway

song performed by Flaming Lips
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If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

quote by Steven Wright
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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

quote by R. Buckminster Fuller
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

quote by Sally Ride
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller in Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
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And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

quote by Duane G. Carey
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You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

quote by Alan Shepard
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