{"quotes":[{"text":"At this point I thought 'We made it,' by which I meant 'We survived.' I also was acutely aware that my childhood dream of flying into space had just come true.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["astronaut","international-space-station","iss","outer-space","space","space-flight","spaceship"],"id":1069,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"},{"text":"We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["action","activism","astronaut","imagination","space"],"id":14857,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"},{"text":"Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason.","author":"Gherman Titov","tags":["astronaut","atheism","atheist","cosmonaut","mankind","reason","russian","space","strength"],"id":17836,"author_id":"Gherman+Titov"},{"text":"Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And there is some group of people that may or may not be associated with government at this point that have this knowledge. They have been attempting to conceal this knowledge. People in high level government have very little, if any, valid information about this. It has been the subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out. ","author":"Edgar D. Mitchell","tags":["aliens","astronaut","conspiracy","extraterrestrial","space"],"id":42279,"author_id":"Edgar+D.+Mitchell"},{"text":"To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["adopt","astronaut","astronauts","behavior","behavioral-change","behavioral-psychology","behaviour","behavioural-psychology","healthy","healthy-habits","healthy-lifestyle","healthy-living","modern","modern-life","modern-society","modern-times","modern-world"],"id":51361,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Curiosity is the essence of our existence.","author":"Gene Cernan","tags":["astronaut","curiosity","discovery","human-nature","purpose","space"],"id":58393,"author_id":"Gene+Cernan"},{"text":"A partner's different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one's pride at the door.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["astronaut","collaboration","different-perspectives","humility","partnership","perspectives","pride","space","space-exploration"],"id":74300,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"},{"text":"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.","author":"Edgar D. Mitchell","tags":["astronaut","humanity","moon","politics","science","space","world"],"id":89836,"author_id":"Edgar+D.+Mitchell"},{"text":"Also I didn't habe 20/20 vision whch you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.","author":"Mark Haddon","tags":["aspergers-syndrome","astronaut","autism","belief","truth","wishes"],"id":115649,"author_id":"Mark+Haddon"},{"text":"Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["astronaut","earth","outer-space","planet","space","space-exploration","universe"],"id":158860,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}