If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he…

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because…

— Carl Sagan

One of the things that's really exciting from my perspective is that Canada is one of the major spacefaring nations. The list of our…

— Dafydd Williams

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring —…

— Carl Sagan

Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but…

— Gregory Benford

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

— Carl Sagan

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

— Lee De Forest

“Up there in the sky. Don’t you see him? No, not the moon. The Man in the Moon. He wasn’t always a man. Nor…

— William Joyce

“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.”

— William A. Henry III

Somebody else can be the first man on the moon. It doesn't interest me at all.

— William Hartnell

“They put a man on the moon. Can’t they find some way to end the scourge of algebra?”

— Huston Piner

They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.

— Gaylord Perry

“I Mean come on, if they can put a man on the moon, we ought to be able to put one in your bedroom.”

— Jackie Bouchard

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the…

— Tavis Smiley

“Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, “If we can put a man on the moon . . . ,” grab your wallet.”

— Jonah Goldberg