"I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I..." — Nancy Roman

I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.

I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I found a job in the government. And the government was appreciably more welcoming.

I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.

Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.