Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
But thanks to the International Space Station, we're able to study the effects of weightlessness and develop countermeasures in orbit, close to… — Victor J. Glover Copy Share Image
The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes. — Brian Walker Copy Share Image
We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless. — Robert Crippen Copy Share Image
Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get… — Laurel Clark Copy Share Image
The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology,… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with… — Mickey Wright Copy Share Image
We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a… — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image