I think it's the entire privilege I had to represent my country. It's not the going to space alone; it's to be part of that endeavour and to contribu…

- Julie Payette

On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.

- Julie Payette

Almost everything I do when I approach an operational problem comes from the time I've been in space. It's a way of organizing your thoughts. We use …

- Julie Payette

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

- Julie Payette

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.

- Julie Payette

If anything, when you're up in space and you're inside a space ship, which is your home, and without which you would not survive, you know that Earth…

- Julie Payette

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 w…

- Julie Payette

Some people will always be volunteers to explore, and it is, in my mind, a privilege.

- Julie Payette

You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

- Julie Payette