Physics Quote by Shannon Walker

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

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

— Chris Hadfield

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

— Sally Ride

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

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

— Gordon Moore

I was having a hard time getting interest from future employers because of my physics background. It seemed all anyone wanted was engineers.

— Shannon Walker

I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto…

— Peter Cullen

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to…

— Michael P. Anderson

I began my career at Teledyne, where I worked on various navigation systems, including Inertial, Doppler radar, and other conventional radio navigation systems.

— Min Kao

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

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

— Nathan Myhrvold