Julie Payette
Julie Payette
Julie Payette, OC, CQis a Canadian astronaut, engineer and administrator. Payette has completed two spaceflights, STS-96 and STS-127, logging more than 25 days in space. She served as Chief Astronaut for the CSA, and has served in other roles for both NASA and CSA, such as CAPCOM...
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth20 October 1963
CityMontreal, Canada
jobs husband feet
My husband and I don't worry about each other the way we might if we didn't have similar jobs. I sometimes get an email where he tells me he's heading off on a mission to do terrain avoidance 50 feet above the ground at 500 knots. And I just say, "Okay, have a good flight."
littles nervous missions
I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.
emotional people levels
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.
years
Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years.
opportunity canada astronaut
The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.
kids thinking people
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.
death-sentence sentences
Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.
writing school numbers
I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.
surprise missions microscopes
You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.