Mae Jemison Quotes

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

NASA has never had a problem finding capable people to be astronauts. NASA's problem was, and still is, finding ways to cut the list of capable applicants down to a manageable length.

I've always been a bit of a space geek. I wrote an article years ago about the neutral buoyancy tank, which is this biblically sized pool where they train astronauts. And it was just the coolest thing.

Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.

To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.

I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.

I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.

The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.

I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.

NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.

The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

It is only by freeing NASA from routine human transport to low-Earth orbit that we can afford to once again see American astronauts exploring distant worlds.

Will we have a colony on Mars? I think so.

NASA is a big organization with a lot of needs that have to be met. So there are a lot of opportunities.

I believe you'll see a low Earth orbit space travel business begin.

I am very inspired by the exploration of space via private means.

I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I'm just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.

In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral.

If I were part of Gaganyaan, I could have been sure that for the next few years, there would have been a second space mission and a third space mission.