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I'm an engineer. I studied physics and engineering. In fact, in 1978 I started working as an aerospace engineer with General Dynamics. I used…

— Edwin Moses

My degrees are in physics and space physics, and I did well enough in university that I actually started working at the Johnson Space…

— Shannon Walker

During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering…

— Martin Ryle

I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at…

— Brenda Brathwaite

I studied physics as an undergraduate, and after I graduated from Rice University, I was actually hired at the Johnson Space Center as a…

— Shannon Walker

Before coming to Congress, I worked as a computer programmer and a systems analyst.

— Jacky Rosen

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

— Sally Ride

My father worked in a grocery store. When the grocery chain went into administration, he eventually got a job in the naval dockyard in…

— Ian Rankin

My first job ever was in sales and customer service at a company called Wireless One when I was in college in Mississippi. It…

— Laphonza Butler

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human…

— Michael J. Massimino

I wanted to be a topographer when I was young.

— Roy Choi

I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that was partly…

— Jonathan Meades