Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt. — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know.… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no… — William Anders Copy Share Image
It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into… — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds.… — Joseph P. Allen Copy Share Image
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“We tend to be unaware that stars rise and set at all. This is not entirely due to our living in cities… — Robert K.G. Temple Copy Share Image
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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