NASA Quotes · Page 3

You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the…

— Allison Schroeder

NASA is a shadow of the space agency it once was in the 1960s and 1970s.

— Robert Bigelow

I want to use the abilities that God has given me to do my job well and support my crewmates and mission…

— Victor J. Glover

One of the things that always appealed to me about Nasa was we were always doing cool stuff that no-one's done before.

— Mark Rober

NASA stands for 'No Access to Space for Americans' - that's what it stands for to me and to most Americans.

— Robert Bigelow

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

— Charles Krauthammer

“They’re not much different from kitchen trash bags, though I’m sure they cost $50,000 because of NASA.”

— Andy Weir

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to…

— Sally Ride

I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been…

— Peggy Whitson

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings…

— Laurel Clark

At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing…

— Gemma Chan

I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to…

— Peggy Whitson

That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought…

— Ellen Ochoa

When I started working with NASA in 1989 as part of a mission to send spacecraft to Pluto, I knew it would…

— Alan Stern

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man…

— John F. Kennedy

Personally, I've got bigger hopes for NASA. I will stipulate it should keep putting telescopes in space so we can figure out…

— Homer Hickam

I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone ‘smart’ and not stupid…

— Mariana Mazzucato

By the way, how much does NASA cost? It's half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? ... The most…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the…

— Michio Kaku

NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be…

— Peter Diamandis

Yet another spunky li'l NASA robot lands and begins transmitting back photographs of rocks that appear virtually identical to the rock photos…

— Dave Barry

I've been collecting articles on extremophile bacteria for at least the last ten years. I find them fascinating, whether they live in…

— Will Hobbs

I had always been interested in the space program, and I didn't know if I could be an astronaut like I'd dreamt…

— Michael J. Massimino

To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is…

— Martin Rees

The head of NASA ought to be a space professional, not a politician.

— Bill Nelson

The secret life of women is to men what the universe is to NASA - unimaginably infinite and completely undiscoverable.

— Dan Levy

“Now we don't care 'bout rain or shine: when you're in space the weather's fine.”

— Jorge Otero

NASA is moving the space program to Starkville because it has no atmosphere.

— Skip Bertman

“Every time I see a USA rocket launch, I sit there thinking ‘What an obscene waste of money’.”

— Steven Magee

Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

— Ted Cruz

I love the John Glenn model... I may call NASA in 25 years or so, and see if they'd like to send…

— Sally Ride

When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.

— Mae Jemison

NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.

— Kathleen Rubins

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

— Laurie Anderson

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

— Trevor Paglen

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

— John M. Grunsfeld

The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

— Ted Cruz

Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The idea that NASA has exclusivity on everything off this planet is wrong.

— Robert Bigelow

Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson