Go Quote by Jim Lovell

Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.

— Kathleen Rubins

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in…

— Robert Crippen

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about…

— Laurel Clark

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

One of the things that always appealed to me about Nasa was we were always doing cool stuff that no-one's done before.

— Mark Rober

I did not come to NASA to make history.

— Sally Ride

I got a hold of NASA, four times, I said, 'I want to become an astronaut.' But nobody would take me. I didn't think…

— Wally Funk

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

I guess those of us who have been with NASA kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that…

— Alan Shepard

All astronauts have degrees in science, engineering, or medicine, but other than that, there's no one path to NASA. The one thing everyone has…

— Shannon Walker

At a young age, I became interested in space and science after watching the U.S. land on the moon for the first time.

— Shannon Walker

NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson