Fine Quote by Alan Shepard

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

— Sally Ride

Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was…

— Laurel Clark

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I…

— Philippe Perrin

“As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task compared to…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we…

— Marc Garneau

Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to…

— Katherine Johnson

Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call.…

— Michael P. Anderson

I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA) had not…

— Buzz Aldrin

We finished 'Spaceman,' and before we were even done with that, we had already been talking about what we were going to do next.

— Brian Azzarello

So much had already been done in space before that, it had all been documented and there were no real surprises in store for…

— Rakesh Sharma

I fundamentally believed in the NASA mission of advancing our space frontier, all the while developing innovations and new technologies that would benefit all…

— Jonny Kim

I could have just invited a bunch of my pilot buddies to go, and we would have had a great time and come back…

— Jared Isaacman