David M. Brown Quotes

I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.

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

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it.

If I were part of Gaganyaan, I could have been sure that for the next few years, there would have been a second space mission and a third space mission.

I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.

What guy didn't want to be an astronaut growing up?

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

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

Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut. I started taking those steps, and then I realized it would be the chance of a lifetime. It would be a dream life: not just a job, but the whole life.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

From day one, I have been told I am no different from the male astronauts. As a pilot, I flew in the sky. Now that I am an astronaut, I will fly in space.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

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

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it's a pretty cool job.

My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut.

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.