Julie Payette Quotes

I am a spacer. It is what and who I am. It is my cause and my life. I am not an enthusiast, a fan, or supporter. It is what I exist to do here on Earth. And there are many of us; some, like Elon Musk, are very high profile.

I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices

When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

The building of the International Space Station is something wonderful, and it will show us how to take the next step beyond low-Earth orbit.

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

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

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.