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I'm 9, 10, and I'm watching the Apollo astronauts go to the moon. We're sitting on the floor of a school, and they have this... huge TV, and I'm looking at that, and I'm thinking 'Me, I would like to do that.' But it didn't dawn on me then that they were American; I was Canadian. They were men; I was a girl. They were test pilots, military folks.
— Julie Payette
Tags: girl, school, thinking, me

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I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams.
— Julie Payette
Tags: teamwork, power, dreams, strength
Most astronauts are very down-to-earth people. Many of us, three-quarters, have an engineering degree, and we have a very Cartesian, rational approach to things.
— Julie Payette
Tags: us, engineering, things, people
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.
— Julie Payette
Tags: like, more, age, you
Human interaction is not a simple thing.
— Julie Payette
Tags: thing, interaction, human, simple
My son, Laurier, and I love being outdoors. We like to ski and to skate, to play in the snow, and simply to walk and enjoy the winter scenery.
— Julie Payette
Tags: winter, son, walk, love
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