Astronaut Aspiration Quotes

What guy didn't want to be an astronaut growing up?

At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.

I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there.

I loved being a test pilot, and so being an astronaut was - was not my end point in, you know, either I achieved success by being an astronaut, or if I don't get picked, I'm not successful. I loved my career as a pilot, and it was a bonus to be selected as an astronaut.

When somebody says I wanted to be an astronaut my question is 'Did you apply?' And most people say no. And to me that's a self-elimination.

Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut. I started taking those steps, and then I realized it would be the chance of a lifetime. It would be a dream life: not just a job, but the whole life.

I progressed through my schooling, undergraduate and graduate degrees, excited about math and science and engineering, but really didn't think about being an astronaut at that point. It was kind of unreachable.

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

My heart would race when I went to Pacific Science Center because I would pretend to be an astronaut, and now I get to come back and give back to the community that I think compelled me to where I am.

I grew up in Spokane, Washington, and I can't recall ever not wanting to be an astronaut.

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.

Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.

Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it.

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.

I wish that I was one of those kids who grew up saying I always wanted to be an astronaut and was really good at science and math. But that wasn't really the case. I always liked it, but I never believed I was one of the smart kids.

I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?'

By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.