Mae Jemison Quotes

I've wanted to go to space, really, since I was a little girl.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

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

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I actually want to go up into space.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

I used to joke that I wanted to go to the moon, but I actually do. Like, some day I think I'm going to go to the moon. That would be cool.

… conquering space …

I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the Hubble Space Telescope.

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

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

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

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling.

Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.

It is rash to set limits to the progress of science. A man who had maintained at Queen Victoria’s Jubilee that within fifty years one would fly the Atlantic in a matter of hours would have risked being certified and locked up; yet we have seen this happen, and in the circumstances I am not prepared to rule out with any confidence the possibility one day of journeys through space in vessels carrying supplies of food and oxygen to the moon and the nearer planets.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

A lot of people, I think, would love to see the earth from above, wear a spacesuit. Certainly, when I was a kid, I wanted to wear a spacesuit.

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.

In order to be stimulated or moved in the future, we probably have to go into space and look at our world from there.

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

I'm looking forward to getting to space, looking back to earth out the copula window. I think all of it is going to be a completely new experience that I can't quite predict.