John M. Grunsfeld Quotes

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.

From day one, I have been told I am no different from the male astronauts. As a pilot, I flew in the sky. Now that I am an astronaut, I will fly in space.

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

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

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.

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

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.

Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

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

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.

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.

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.

The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you can invite people on-board, which is what I worked so hard to do on social media and all the videos I made.

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

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.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

Becoming an astronaut was a little bit of happenstance for me.

Flying in space is a privilege, whether it's the first time or the fourth time.

If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing.