Having made too many trips to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for my own good, it has been my good fortune to meet some 112 Astronauts, Cosmonauts and “Spaceflight Participants.” Usually commentary from these folks is rather dry and then of course you get the questions from the tourists, (inevitably the same questions are asked over and over again). However, every once in a while an astronaut will let lose with a real zinger. Here are a few of the things I’ve heard that gave me quite a laugh at the time.

“…I learned a lot from folks at NASA, from “Hoot” Gibson I learned what a T-38 jet sounds like with its engines cut off at 38,000 feet!”

Astronaut Steven Hawley at the 2007 Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction.

“Three old astronauts were walking to the launch pad.  The first one said, “It’s windy!”  The second said, “No! It’s Thursday!” Then the last one said, “Me too!  Let’s go get a drink!”

Astronaut and American legend John Glenn at World Space Expo in Nov. 2007.

“It was wonderful, for a lot of reasons, for one if something were to happen, it was going to happen on the surface and I still got to come home!”

Apollo astronaut Al Worden regarding on what it was like to be by himself while the other two astronauts of Apollo 15 were on the lunar surface.  He said this at the Apollo 40th Anniversary at Kennedy Space Center, July 16, 2009.