Listening Quote by Sunita Williams

One of the astronauts I came to admire the most is John Young.

— Peggy Whitson

John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish Id had the chance to make more music with him, of…

— Tony Levin

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led…

— Alan Shepard

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

— Julie Adams

I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

— Jon Gordon

[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant. One of…

— Helen Merrill

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and…

— Lesley Gore

And James L. Brooks then sort of became our mentor, brought us out to Los Angeles and worked on the script for a year…

— Owen Wilson

Gerald Wilson was one of my mentors: he was in his nineties before he passed and, literally, every time I saw him, he'd be…

— Kamasi Washington

Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I…

— Peter Diamandis

Throughout Johnson Space Center's history, contributions to STEM innovation and discoveries has been both through new technologies developed to advance human spaceflight and through…

— Ellen Ochoa

I met Sam Phillips when he came in [studio] and I said, I'm John Cash. I'm the one who's been calling. And if you'd…

— Johnny Cash