Top 12 Most Famous Christina Koch Quotes
Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it.
— Christina Koch
Follow your passions, live the life you’ve imagined and do what scares you.
— Christina Koch
How you define your schedule depends on how you keep focused…
— Christina Koch
Identify the things that are challenging in your day based on how you develop your own focus and then coming up with a strategy specifically for that.
— Christina Koch
Avoid the rabbit holes that can kind of lead to us not being our best selves and not feeling great…
— Christina Koch
One of the best ways to keep negativity at bay is to have physical activity. It’s a physiological thing in our bodies and it is just something that we can actually harness… Pick a time in your day to get outside and to actually gesture your heart rate up to experience nature if you can, if that just means working out inside your home, do that.
— Christina Koch
I don’t even remember a time when I didn’t want to be an astronaut. I’ve always been into things like exploring and science on the frontiers.
— Christina Koch
They are all my Astro brothers and sisters, and we always have each other’s backs.
— Christina Koch
We are like family, which is important because we may one day be crew members in space, where that trust and confidence is so important.
— Christina Koch
To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done.
— Christina Koch
To see the Earth below you when we could take a break… to appreciate the environment around us was very special.
— Christina Koch
There are a lot of people who derive motivation from inspiring stories from people who look like them, and I think that it’s an important aspect of the story to tell.
— Christina Koch
12 Best Christina Koch Quotes (Astronaut)
I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all aspects of society, and those who have pushed the boundaries of human imagination.
— Christina Koch
Outside of my family, I was always inspired by true heroic stories of leadership and survival. For example, the story of the Shackleton expedition, when their ship became lodged in the Antarctic ice pack while exploring.
— Christina Koch
I’ve always been into things like exploring and science on the frontiers. I had pictures of space up in my room way back in middle school, right next to the boy band posters!
— Christina Koch
All astronauts, even civilians like me without pilot experience, have to learn how to co-pilot a jet called a T-38.
— Christina Koch
We work together as a team. And between us and between the crew and our teams on the ground, we don’t look at gender, and we don’t see it as a barrier.
— Christina Koch
I invented an algorithm for starting micro turbo-molecular vacuum pumps to be used in science instruments on a future Mars rover.
— Christina Koch
My mom studied biology and my dad studied chemistry and some physics and he is a physician, but he had a very strong interest in astronomy and astrophysics and exploration in general.
— Christina Koch
While you’re in space, you grow in height! Without the constant force of gravity on your spine, it stretches out, and you’re actually taller when you land. It doesn’t last long though.
— Christina Koch
We always had National Geographic and Astronomy magazines and Popular Mechanics lying around the house. I got interested in exploration and different parts of the world and different parts of the universe just from seeing those things around the house and the different discussions we had as a family.
— Christina Koch
When I was at the South Pole, the coldest it got – and I didn’t go outside – was minus 111. That was during the winter, so it’s dark 24 hours a day, and for some of our jobs, we are required to go outside, even in weather like that.
— Christina Koch
So here in space, obviously, in microgravity, we have to use our hands to get ourselves around, to float around the modules, because our feet, we don’t necessarily walk around, we just grab hand holds and move ourselves around, which means that we need our hands free to do just that.
— Christina Koch
I’ve done work wearing full cold-weather gear hanging off of scientific towers in the Antarctic and the Arctic. Having to actually do small, delicate tasks on scientific equipment while you have no dexterity or tactile feedback is something that’s very transferrable.
— Christina Koch
