Mae Jemison Quotes

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

I remember looking at the moon as an 8-year-old and marveling that there were two astronauts in a lander on the surface, getting ready to go out and actually walk. That settled it for me: I knew I was going to at least try to become an astronaut. I wanted to be like those guys.

I had pretty much done it all before I went into space. So when the opportunity came, I went along. It was that simple.

I was the 128th human in space. So I didn't really sweat about it.

The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut.

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

Who doesn't want to fly around in a spaceship?

Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow.

When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

You dream about winning since a kid and when you get that first win it took some time to realise it. But once I realised it, it was so cool.

When I was in Class Four, I wanted to be an astronaut. I am still fascinated with the universe. I decided I wanted to be an actor when I was in Class Eight.

I've flown in space four times now, so it's going to be hard in that respect, but I certainly look forward to going back to Earth. I've been up here for a really long time and sometimes, when I think about it, I feel like I've lived my whole life up here.

Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.

When you are finally in space and you're finally looking back at Earth and you realize for the first time in your life there's nothing standing between you and your dream, it's just so hard to describe the profound impact of that.

As a kid, I was always pretending to score the goal in the FA Cup final, and I managed to live my dream.

The first time I went into space was just so much more than you could imagine or prepare yourself for.

For me to join 'Fast and Furious' was like a childhood dream come true, and and I felt it became a great movie.

Most of us at least briefly considered answering, 'An astronaut,' when asked as children what we wanted to be when we grew up.

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

I thought I was prepared for space, and it still absolutely defied every expectation and dream. It is an incredible thing to put yourself on a rocket and launch off the planet. It is an amazing thing to see the planet from space. This blue sphere is almost indescribably beautiful.