Air Quote by Buzz Aldrin

My interest in the space program has a certain purity to it because I recognize the romance of it but I was never seduced…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with…

— Christa McAuliffe

As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment.

— Alan Stern

To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done.

— Christina Koch

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

— Sally Ride

There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by…

— John M. Grunsfeld

I joined the Army out of a deep sense of duty, but wanting to be an astronaut feels more like my destiny.

— Anne McClain

It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that is what…

— Rick Husband

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG…

— Brian Blessed

I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent…

— Peggy Whitson

I had been lucky that my physiology is well suited to space training.

— Helen Sharman

I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went…

— Chuck Yeager