Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?'

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success, many pathways to do that, and we need to understand better what might be preventing people from using those pathways.

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.

Education is what allows you to stand out