Flight Quote by Shannon Walker

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

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

— Sally Ride

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 first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.

— Gordon Moore

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

— Jim Lovell

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

— James Rothman

I wound up getting offered a job at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where I invented a power supply mechanism for the Galileo space…

— Lonnie Johnson

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

— Jeff Bezos

I was fascinated by aeroplanes in my childhood. So, it was like I wanted to study science and then become a pilot.

— Mayank Agarwal

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

Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people…

— Burt Rutan

When I became an astronaut, I was an engineer.

— Julie Payette