“When you peel back the glamorous veneer of the astronaut, you find that it is a really dangerous and biologically toxic job.”
― Steven Magee

“Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Nothing happens until something moves.”
— Albert Einstein

“Ben had never seen his mother cry before, and it startled him, so he didn’t ask again. Right afterward she’d put on her favorite record and played a mysterious song called “Space Oddity,” about an astronaut named Major Tom who gets lost in space. She used to listen to the song over and over again. With her eyes closed, she’d place the palm of h…

“For a test pilot the right stuff in the prayer department was not “Please, God, don’t let me blow up.” No, the supplication at such a moment was “Please, dear God, don’t let me fuck up.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff

“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!”
― Steven Magee, Health Forensics

“Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles