Accident Quote by Mae Jemison

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

— Eileen Collins

I applied to NASA four times. And finally, they said, Wally, you know, we're sorry, but you don't have an engineering degree. I said,…

— 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

And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And…

— Umberto Guidoni

In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral.

— Allison Schroeder

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 a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

— Jim Lovell

I went to, while I was in the military, Western New England College for my MBA and New England School of Law for my…

— Darryl Glenn

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

— Mitch Leigh

I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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 was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies.…

— Dylan O'Brien