Astronaut Quote by Jim Lovell

Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be…

— Pete Olson

I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test…

— Alan G. Poindexter

When I became an astronaut, I was an engineer.

— Julie Payette

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

— Alan Shepard

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

— John L. Phillips

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 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

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of…

— Duane G. Carey

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

— Sally Ride

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air…

— Leon Askin

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

— Dennis Quaid

Always wanted to be an Air Force pilot. I must admit that was my dream.

— Mayank Agarwal