Juliana Rotich Quotes

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

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

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

Go to the moon - that's my dream.

One of my early heroes was Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.

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

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?

Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon.

All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.

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

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.

I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.

I'd like to go to the Moon.

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

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

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

I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.

I would still like to go to the moon before I die.

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.