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Astronaut

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“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
— First words from the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle after guiding the craft to a landing on the moon at 4:17pm EDT (20 July 1969); reported in The Washington Post (July 21, 1969), p. 1.
“Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go—and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.”
— Wernher von Braun as quoted in Time (17 Feb 1958)
“Right now Mars is entirely inhabited by robots, and one of them is artificially intelligent enough to make its own decisions about what to zap with its laser.”
— Raymond Francis, member of a Jet Propulsion Laboratory team tasked with giving the Mars Curiosity rover the ability to independently select which geological features it will examine with its ChemCam laser-and-micro-imaging instrument, as quoted in "The Curiosity rover and other spacecraft are learning to think for themselves: Autonomous science-bots will make it easier to explore our solar system … and beyond." Popular Science. June 21, 2017.
“[The International Space Station] stands as proof that when we set our minds to something hard, when we work together, we can do anything, including solving our problems here on Earth.”
— Scott Kelly, from his book, Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (2017), pages 364 and 365. With Margaret Lazarus Dean. Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House. ISBN 9781524731595.
“One obstacle to adulthood needs to be solved immediately: We must learn not just to accept differences between ourselves and our ideas, but to enthusiastically welcome and enjoy them. Diversity contains as many treasures as those waiting for us on other worlds. We will find it impossible to fear diversity and to enter the future at the same time.”
— Gene Roddenberry, A Letter to the Next Generation, (1988)
“My dream would be to fly to the moon and build permanent structures, using the raw materials available there. For instance, regolith, or moon dust, could be used to make a form of concrete. Using 3-D printers, we could build all kinds of things with that moon concrete -- houses, streets and observatories, for example.”
— Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Director General of the European Space Agency, as quoted in "New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete'" Spiegel Online International, Hamburg, Germany. June 19, 2015.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Astronaut: person who commands, pilots, or serves as a crew member of a · album by Salem Al Fakir · 2023 studio album by Ash Walker · 2019 film directed by Shelagh McLeod

Notable quotes

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
— First words from the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle after guiding the craft to a landing on the moon at 4:17pm EDT (20 July 1969); reported in The Washington Post (July 21, 1969), p. 1.
“Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go—and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.”
— Wernher von Braun as quoted in Time (17 Feb 1958)
“Right now Mars is entirely inhabited by robots, and one of them is artificially intelligent enough to make its own decisions about what to zap with its laser.”
— Raymond Francis, member of a Jet Propulsion Laboratory team tasked with giving the Mars Curiosity rover the ability to independently select which geological features it will examine with its ChemCam laser-and-micro-imaging instrument, as quoted in "The Curiosity rover and other spacecraft are learning to think for themselves: Autonomous science-bots will make it easier to explore our solar system … and beyond." Popular Science. June 21, 2017.
“[The International Space Station] stands as proof that when we set our minds to something hard, when we work together, we can do anything, including solving our problems here on Earth.”
— Scott Kelly, from his book, Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (2017), pages 364 and 365. With Margaret Lazarus Dean. Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House. ISBN 9781524731595.
“One obstacle to adulthood needs to be solved immediately: We must learn not just to accept differences between ourselves and our ideas, but to enthusiastically welcome and enjoy them. Diversity contains as many treasures as those waiting for us on other worlds. We will find it impossible to fear diversity and to enter the future at the same time.”
— Gene Roddenberry, A Letter to the Next Generation, (1988)
“My dream would be to fly to the moon and build permanent structures, using the raw materials available there. For instance, regolith, or moon dust, could be used to make a form of concrete. Using 3-D printers, we could build all kinds of things with that moon concrete -- houses, streets and observatories, for example.”
— Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Director General of the European Space Agency, as quoted in "New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete'" Spiegel Online International, Hamburg, Germany. June 19, 2015.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.