Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

quote by Dan Quayle
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Flight of Fancy

Our sofa was a spaceship.
We soared between the stars
Visiting distant planets
Like Jupiter and Mars.

My brother and I were astronauts
Dad was Chief Engineer
He'd power up the engines
Then through the heavens we'd steer.

We followed a passing comet,
Met some little green men,
Went to the edge of the universe
And all the way back again.

We travelled across the galaxy
Passed the Milky Way.
Even took tea with the Man in the Moon
And all in just one day!

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poem by Dawn Ferrett
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I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.

quote by Leroy Chiao
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Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.

quote by Duane G. Carey
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Spaceman

La fine qui e ti culler
io temo di vincerti
la vertigine in volo
nessuno sapr mai che in questo cielo
dovr concluderti nel blu...
io nel blu
spaceman
tu giura qui che m'incontrerai
e sarai simile a me
in ogni io che sei
spaceman infine qui che m'incontrerai
io temo di vincerti la vertigine in volo
respira in vene lisce e questo bene
dovr concluderti
concluderti.

song performed by Verdena
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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

quote by Wernher von Braun
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Sunitha Williams-The astronaut

Sunitha Williams—We are proud of her!
All women kind -We are proud
She is from India—We are proud
She is an Indian American astronaut—We are proud
She has set a record for maximum no: of space walks
by a woman astronaut—We are proud
She and her Japanese colleague, Akihiko Hoside
together fixed a problem in the I S S -We are proud
They completed a problematic task
of repairing the switching mechanism
of the main power unit—We are proud
They installed a camera on the
robotic arm of the space station—We are proud
She holds the record of the space flight
by a woman astronaut of 195 days—We are proud
May God Bless her—We are proud of her!

poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

quote by R. Buckminster Fuller
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A green alien
Jumped down from his green spaceship;
I didn’t see him!

haiku by C. Richard Miles
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I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

quote by David Byrne
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These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.

quote by Gene Roddenberry
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I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

quote by Mark Haddon
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I'm Flash

I'm Flash, I'm the hero
I'm the bopper who's the poppa of the crew
I'm Flash, and I fight evil
And my spaceship flies the red, white and blue
I'm Flash, like a streaker
You'll find me cruising out among the stars
And I'm feared by every outlaw
And every renegade from Jupiter to Mars
The jails are full in Saturn and I can tell you why
'Cause I'm the full-blasting, protoblasting hero of the sky
On Mars the smugglers starve no matter what they try
'Cause I'm the everlasting, flabber-ghasting guy who's flying high
I'm Flash, yeah, I'm the hero
From the starspangled U.S of A
I believe in packin' punchin' power
And hitting fast 'cause that's the only way
I'm Flash
I'm Flash, and I'm a mover
My spaceship glides at twice the speed of light
I'm Flash, and I'm a He-Man

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song performed by Alice Cooper
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Spaceman

Starry night bring me down
til I realize the moon
It seems so distant yet I felt it pass
Right through
So I see what I see
A new world is over me
So Ill reach up to the sky
And pretend that Im a
Spaceman, in another place and time
I guess Im lookin for a brand new
Place, is there a better life for me
Subtle wind blow me gone
Let me rest upon your move
I trust Ill end up sleeping
Cradled in my doom
So I feel what I feel
I cant grasp what is not real
So Ill get myself real high
And imagine Im a
Spaceman, in another place and time

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song performed by 4 Non Blondes
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Moonshot

I will take a shot on the moon
By flying my spaceship
Around the moon
In a few weeks

poem by Aldo Kraas
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The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

quote by Denis Waitley
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

quote by Sally Ride
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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 most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

quote by R. Buckminster Fuller
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It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

quote by John L. Phillips
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