Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic. — Paul Horowitz 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
I don't play golf and I don't collect stamps. I don't ride horses. I don't go mountain hiking, I don't go star… — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There I am in my younger days, star gazing Painting picture perfect maps Of how my life and love would be Not… — Indigo Girls Copy Share Image
To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from… — Jack Gleeson 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
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unless people can see broad vistas of unused resources in front of them, the belief in limited resources tends to follow as… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
“Because she looks to the sky so often, people think that her life is sweet, that her eyes are dotted with dreamy… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience. — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station? — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something into the-into the space. — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is… — Gherman Titov Copy Share Image
The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization. — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle,… — Rachael Ray 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
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally. — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
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