Being Quote by Ellen Ochoa

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

— Julie Payette

I think flying is kind of an emotional experience.

— Herb Kelleher

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

— Helen Sharman

Most of my family and friends are very familiar with the human space flight program and with the excitement of becoming an astronaut.

— Shannon Walker

People are genuinely interested about what it's like to experience spaceflight and try to get some of our perspectives on it.

— Anne McClain

I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to…

— Louis Zamperini

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

— Helen Sharman

Once you get into the spacecraft, you're on your way, you've got a mission, you're focused, and it's really exciting.

— Sunita Williams

The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply…

— Scott Carpenter

This has been a really interesting journey, the seven years I've been at NASA, and it's been a real exercise personally and professionally, but…

— Victor J. Glover

Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.

— Jim Rohn

As an astronaut, when you're getting ready to go out of that hatch, you know that's the pinnacle of both your career and your…

— Thomas Marshburn