Astronaut Quote by Sally Ride

It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that…

— Sally Ride

I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.

— Nancy Roman

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed…

— Shannon Lucid

From day one, I have been told I am no different from the male astronauts. As a pilot, I flew in the sky. Now…

— Liu Yang

NASA didn't give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable.

— Theodore Melfi

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

Without women, we stood in space on one leg only.

— Vladimir Dzhanibekov

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far…

— Zig Ziglar

I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with…

— David M. Brown

For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate…

— Frances Arnold

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

— Sally Ride

When I was driving the simulator, out of the three engineers I worked with one was a woman. So it was very difficult for…

— Susie Wolff