Quotes from Julie Payette

I will take every constructive criticism, make it my own, learn from my mistake, and go forward.

Maple butter spread on a tortilla is absolutely delightful.

If you're in space on the way to Mars, and a conflict develops... you can't turn around and go back, because Earth is already gone on its orbit.

I was a flight engineer on my second flight, which is the most senior position a non-American can have aboard the shuttle. We're the cockpit crew. We fly the vehicle up to space, dock the vehicle to the space station, undock it at the end of the mission, and return it to the ground.

On my first mission, I was the spacewalk supervisor: the person that runs the spacewalk from inside the vehicle. As such, I was the one that closed the hatch when my colleagues left to work outside for six hours. And I was also the person who opens the hatch when they come back, and we repressurize.

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

When I became an astronaut, I was an engineer.

I'd love to serve on the Enterprise.

There was a substantial vinyl collection in my home, and my mom played piano. We, the children, were enrolled in piano lessons very early on.

Everything evolves, and I evolve, too.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.