Control Quote by Richard Bacon

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

I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA) had not…

— Buzz Aldrin

It's a little surprising to me that I'm the first Houstonian to be an astronaut.

— Shannon Walker

I always call myself a space construction worker. We were only the second mission ever to go to the space station. There was nothing…

— Julie Payette

They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.

— Buzz Aldrin

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

— Sally Ride

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

— Robert Crippen

Houston is where I grew up and luckily I didn't have to go far to pursue my dream of becoming an astronaut.

— Shannon Walker

In 2009 I went up on the space shuttle. I was in space for 16 days and docked at the space station for 11…

— Thomas Marshburn

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into…

— Ulrich Walter

When I was at NASA, I had a house on a small private airstrip that we shared between the flying community. I had a…

— Leroy Chiao

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

— Big Time Rush