Construction Quote by Julie Payette

When I was up on my first flight, we were really putting it together. So, I was essentially a construction worker.

— Sunita Williams

I always call myself a space construction worker.

— Julie Payette

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

I worked on all of the Apollo manned missions and a couple of Apollo unmanned missions.

— Margaret H. Hamilton

I was a rough kid. And this is all I ever wanted to do. I never wanted to be an astronaut. I didn't want…

— Caleb Plant

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

— Luca Parmitano

Everyone of us on a mission. Got my whole crew by my side.

— Big Time Rush

I was a flight engineer on my second flight, which is the most senior position a non-American can have aboard the shuttle. We're the…

— Julie Payette

When I became an astronaut, I was an engineer.

— Julie Payette

We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists,…

— Thomas Marshburn

I actually stood inside Mission Control in Houston while a shuttle mission was under way.

— Richard Bacon

It is incredibly exciting to be able to actually go and live on the space station after having worked so long on seeing the…

— Shannon Walker