“The man who eventually reached the moon would be traveling in a vessel made of earthly materials.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much money,' I say, 'I absolutely… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
“Ah, youth! It was a beautiful night... The moon was out of orbit. The stars were awry. But everything else was exactly… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We are in the process of finding out what filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of satellites does to all life… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“If he ever got back to earth, he was making them list that as one of the dangers of outer space exploration,… — Twisted Hilarity Copy Share Image
“To rise from the national level to the level of mankind, I call that progress. And that's what's so admirable. For a… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
I grew up in California. I was outside of the city, not directly in it. So I did have an experience of… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
“We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles,… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
“Do I think it was inherent nobility that brought us out here?” He shook his head. “Maybe. I don’t call it nobility,… — Cassandra Davis Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I’ll gloss right over the implication in what you said that the Reor are sentient entities—for now. Dare I ask why they… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“My favorite lecturer was Alan Bean, who flew on Apollo 12 and is one of the twelve guys who walked on the… — Mike Massimino Copy Share Image
“amount to a fart in a cyclone. His parents and their parson had tried to sell him the same message, binding him… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
“I find these comparisons particularly poignant: life versus death, hope versus fear. Space exploration and the highly mechanized destruction of people use… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain?… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over. — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
“NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.” — Will Chabot Copy Share Image
To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life… — Roberta Bondar Copy Share Image
I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration. — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
“For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“The moon, the serene moon, was creating a conflict of opinion in America almost as violent as the racial problem.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked. — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
