Quotes from Julie Payette

It reassures me that when we get together as a community, when we put our effort together and our will to help others, we can achieve anything, and that is a lesson for us all.

Part of the role that I am fulfilling as Governor General is to highlight what communities can do together.

Let's work together to keep our country open, tolerant, respectful, and progressive.

It is one planet and we all have a duty to protect it. We have to work together. We have to use our power to work together and make decisions and changes that are needed to preserve our world.

I always call myself a space construction worker.

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.

Our values are tolerance and determination and freedom of religion, freedom to act, opportunities, equality of opportunities amongst everyone and for all.

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.

My favourite thing about the holiday season is to spend time with family and friends and to take time off to celebrate.

Whatever your interests or abilities, I encourage you stay active during the holiday season.

I really feel like, on my first mission, the first mission is when you prove yourself and hopefully deserve the privilege to continue as an astronaut and remain in the corps and get granted an opportunity for a second mission.

I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself on the shuttle.

Trust science, believe that innovation and discoveries are good for us, and make decisions based on data and evidence.

Human interaction is not a simple thing.

I am classically trained in piano, flute, and voice.

Young kids get motivated by everything. If they see a great dancer, some of them would want to become a dancer. If they see a great soccer player, they want to become a soccer player.

We sleep very well in space. We have a sleeping bag each, and when you get into it, you float in the sleeping bag.

I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.

I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams.

We have fans that circulate air in the cabin of the module of the space shuttle. They're running all the time. They're absolutely necessary because, otherwise, you will breathe your own CO2 and intoxicate yourself quite fast.

When I saw the Earth from above, personally, as a spacecraft operator, it certainly reinforced and drove home the fact that there's one place where we can live right now.

We're all on-board the same planetary spaceship, but together, we can move mountains.

If you want more kids to become engineers in space, travellers, and pilots, then you have to expose them to those types of careers.

You can learn at any age, but when you are young, you are like a sponge, and when you are introduced to more different types of things before the age of seven and eight, then you get fascinated by that.