“I never want my children to ever feel like they need to be a SEAL, or ...” — Jonny Kim Quote

I never want my children to ever feel like they need to be a SEAL, or that they need to go into medicine, or be an astronaut in order to please me - because I don't think that's very fair. I just want them to live their own lives. I don't hesitate at every opportunity to remind my children of that.

I applied to zero colleges.

I think living with humility, and serving with humility, is one of the most important things humans can do.

Ego is probably one of the biggest poisons we can have - it's toxic to any environment.

I live in Boston so I'm used to small spaces.

If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

Houston is where I grew up and luckily I didn't have to go far to pursue my dream of becoming an astronaut.

When I became an astronaut, I was an engineer.

I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.