NASA Quotes

I did not come to NASA to make history.

— Sally Ride

NASA should start thinking about this planet.

— Wally Schirra

NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

— Eugene Cernan

If you need space, work at NASA.

— Anonymous

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

— Dan Quayle

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

— John M. Grunsfeld

NASA headquarters belong in Ohio.

— Jon Husted

The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

— Gus Grissom

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

— Marc Garneau

Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.

— Kathleen Rubins

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

— Robert Bigelow

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

— Chuck Yeager

The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.

— Anne McClain

NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either.

— Stephen Colbert

My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I will defend the NASA Earth Science Division with everything I've got.

— David Grinspoon

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

When I got to college, I discovered how many incredible opportunities NASA offered students pursuing a career in the space industry.

— Emily Calandrelli

“When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do…

— Pete Conrad

The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence…

— Alan Stern

The West Virginia NASA Space Grant took me under their wing and taught me everything about applying for internships, scholarships, and performing…

— Emily Calandrelli

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used…

— Marc Garneau

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

— William Proxmire

It was in the back of my mind, even while I was going to school, but it wasn't until I was at…

— Leroy Chiao

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

I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they…

— Kate Mulgrew

I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure…

— Randall Munroe

Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the…

— Benjamin Franklin

Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones…

— Nina Arianda

NASA needs to decide, along with Congress, what our destination is going to be, whether it's going to be the moon, an…

— Shannon Walker

“I will tell you sincerely and without exaggeration that the best part of lunch today at the NASA Ames cafeteria is the…

— Mary Roach

There's a story about when President Lyndon Johnson visited NASA and as he was walking the halls he came across a janitor…

— Jon Gordon

The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is…

— Fred Brooks

“One critic complained to me that "Well, if you are right, we will have to rewrite the textbooks!" As if that were…

— John Anthony West

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

— Mariana Mazzucato

The Russians have been flying long duration crews since the early '70's. And in the early days, they've ended at least two…

— Leroy Chiao

I attended a big human space flight conference in Beijing and I was going as myself. And really, there weren't any NASA…

— Leroy Chiao

“For the better part of seven decades, watching rockets launch from Cape Canaveral has been a major tourist attraction, a favorite activity…

— James D. Wright