Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.
Michael J. Massimino
Related Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. THOMAS PAINE I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronaut... LEROY CHIAO No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames. RALPH WALDO EMERSON When I was nine, I wanted to be an astronaut but at that time there weren't any Canadian astronauts.... CHRIS HADFIELD Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble. ANDY WEIR I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other ... GORDON COOPER [On the other hand, rapper nicknames] come from anywhere, ... And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip Ho... BILL ADLER In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames ou... SNOOP DOGG I don't have any nicknames. SALLY RIDE I don't need any nicknames. VICTOR CRUZ Some people insist that hallowed professional teams should never change their nicknames. GEORGE VECSEY It's not the nicknames, it's how they got the nicknames that matters. SCOTT PELLEY Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more ... CHARLES DUKE I always was fascinated by neat nicknames. STEVE SABOL [But rapper nicknames] come from anywhere, ... And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip Hop. BILL ADLER Orbital capsule is the place for astronauts to live and work during their space flight. WANG YONGZHI Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the 'overview effect,' return to Earth,... DYLAN TAYLOR People can have nicknames. Body parts should not. JENNY O'CONNELL Overall, as a class, they will not be shuttle astronauts. They will be space station astronauts, tes... ALLARD BEUTEL All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I w... TAYE DIGGS No one is excluded from the astronaut corps based on penis size. MARY ROACH I loved being a test pilot, and so being an astronaut was - was not my end point in, you know, eithe... GREGORY H. JOHNSON We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opi... DYLAN TAYLOR When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty ... PIERCE BROWN I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to ge... JOHN GLENN The seven astronauts on board were accomplished women and men of great courage who put their extraor... JEAN CHRETIEN I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the fam... VALENTINA TERESHKOVA One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves. EARL MONROE Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I... ULRICH WALTER Katherine gave in to the wonder of the moment, imagining herself in the astronauts' place. What emot... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY It is unlikely that we will hit a home run anytime soon but if we are unable to get rid of offensive... ADAM DODEK Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. THOMAS C. HALIBURTON Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. THOMAS C. HALIBURTON Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of ... UMBERTO GUIDONI It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a ... LUCA PARMITANO Downfall, failure and death cannot be far from any man who made counterfeit friends his ally and sup... BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI My fellow astronauts... DAN QUAYLE If they get close to one another, material can transfer and the angular momentum from one system can... JAN HOLLIS People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. ... DAISAKU IKEDA People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. EUGENE CERNAN People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. GENE CERNAN We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars. ELLEN STOFAN My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astr... NAYVADIUS CASH Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear ... MARY ROACH Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and ... LORD CHESTERFIELD I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents... VANESSA HUDGENS He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated,
even when most on his guard. UNKNOWN Our prayers are with the family members, friends and colleagues of the seven astronauts. Those we lo... KANSAS It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of th... EMMELINE PANKHURST Those wanting to be an astronaut and venture through universe, need only delve into another's eyes. IAN IJH HOWELL Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh. STEVEN WRIGHT And tonight I'm feelin like an astronaut, sending sos from this tiny box,and i lost the signal when ... SIMPLE PLAN We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it jus... ADAM D'ANGELO You. O Positive. How many exits?" "What?...Oh shit, did you just call me by my bloodtype? RACHEL CAINE How can we put more brave astronauts in harm's way solely on NASA's assurance that this time they'll... ANTHONY WEINER Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names. CHESPIRITO Goodnight, moon. Goodnight, stars. Goodnight planets, comets and... Mars. Yes, even you, Mars. And n... PAUL THE ASTRONAUT There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their suc... CARLOS GHOSN You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that? ... JEANIENE FROST You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting ca... PATRICK J. ADAMS I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people... ARTHUR C. CLARKE Just as Wallace, Thurmond and many other segregationists came to regret their errors, I hope that Go... PHIL ANGELIDES People have had nicknames as long as people have been walking. CLEVELAND KENT EVANS When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get o... OSWALD CHAMBERS During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen as... DANA ROHRABACHER In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated... CHRIS HADFIELD Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. DAN QUAYLE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually ma... RALPH W. SOCKMAN We need to shrink-wrap the astronaut. It would be like wearing a second skin. DAVA NEWMAN I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. C... PETER CAPALDI Water is so much like space that because we cannot breathe in it and we have weightlessness in it. A... GARY F EVANS... Sometimes, you're able to create a very distinct voice ... from just the pace of their speech. Did y... JIM DALE I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it. JOHN GLENN There are so many soulful singers, even the ones coming from London, like Adele and Jessie J, who ar... BRITNEY SPEARS This is the thing about the service industry, you can get trained to be slick and hospitable in any ... MERRITT TIERCE A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group o... KEAHU KAHUANUI I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astr... JIM LOVELL It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares a... MICHIO KAKU the opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few. JULIE PAYETTE I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past... ORSON SCOTT CARD To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has al... EUGENE CERNAN To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has al... GENE CERNAN We are happy we can play a part in the mission of the first Brazilian astronaut. He will undoubtedly... VYACHESLAV DAVIDENKO Readers will recall that the little evidence collected seemed to point to the strange and confusing ... J.G. BALLARD The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Did you know that in space it's very, very cold? And there's no oxygen? And if an astronaut fell out... HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world. ELLEN PAGE Not until the space shuttle started flying did NASA concede that some astronauts didn't have to ... HENRY SPENCER This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations... GEORGE ORWELL Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?' 'I'm called Chocho,' Will said... 'Cho... JOHN FLANAGAN I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. DAVID BYRNE Then, hopefully their family and friends will support the team, and it will grow from there. DAVE COHEN We're trying to open it up more for other kids to be threats. ... We need to get consistency from ot... GREG ADAMS Kids who fail to do anything in their life only search for reasons in the end or sometimes even blam... PRAVIN PRAJAPATI By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astro... DAVID MACKAY
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FOX The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix... MICHAEL J. COHEN They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel... MICHAEL J. BEHE The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. MICHAEL J. FOX What other people think about me is not my business. MICHAEL J. FOX I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's j... MICHAEL J. FOX If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor... MICHAEL J. FOX It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. MICHAEL J. FOX On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a... MICHAEL J. FOX The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an... MICHAEL J. FOX Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had... MICHAEL J. FOX Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked. “With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN