Julie Payette Quotes

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon - the 12 who walked on it, and the others who orbited - all suffered serious mental trauma of one kind or another.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

We got to the moon.

I actually don't remember Apollo 11 exactly because, at the time, I was five years old. The landing happened at night, and the walk on the moon happened at night eastern time, and I asked my parents; my mom said I was probably asleep, and so I just don't have any recollection. I do have recollection of the later missions to the moon.

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

So many people I talk to who work in technology, you ask them, 'What got you interested in science?' and those from my generation say, 'The Apollo landings.'

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

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

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

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.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

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.'

For the new century, back to the moon, back to the future and this time back to stay. And then a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to Mars.

Our whole approach to space has been very male. We wont up to the moon ...walked on it. And we never went back. We never called. We never wrote. It's the typical one night stand.

I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.

It was an incredible series, 'From The Earth To The Moon.' All of it's great.

Somebody else can be the first man on the moon. It doesn't interest me at all.

I cycled on a crew assignment as the backup commander on Apollo 16 and would have flown Apollo 19 on a return mission to the moon. However, the last few missions of the Apollo Program were canceled for budgetary reasons. So I lost my second opportunity to land on the moon.