NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
We need to explore our own deserts and land, which need to be healed and managed on the planet itself. It is… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
“The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be… — Helen Sharman Copy Share Image
“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
The expansion of commercial space exploration holds huge promise and benefits for our country. It will help support government-backed research and programs,… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
The bigger shift in space exploration won't be commercial crew - that will be a validation of something we already knew was… — Dylan Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration.… — Alan G. Poindexter Copy Share Image
“Coordinates streamed into her mind while she yanked on her environment suit, foregoing every safety check she’d ever learned. ‘Alex, we will… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below… — Loren Acton Copy Share Image
“The venture into space is meaningless unless it coincides with a certain interior expansion, an ever-growing universe within, to correspond with the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed… — Rob Bishop Copy Share Image
If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as… — Rolf Jacobsen Copy Share Image
A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and… — Alfonso Cuaron 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
Because of technologies from space exploration, we can begin to understand our world's origins, and our lives are improving. These are the… — Emily Calandrelli Copy Share Image
Fifty years after humans landed on the moon for the first time, America has driven a golden spike on the trail to… — Anne McClain Copy Share Image
“On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The… — Donald A. Wollheim Copy Share Image
It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain?… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people interested in space exploration tend to hear stories about the great missions, how they work technically,… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty.… — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
“Mir astronaut Jerry Linenger writes in his memoir that he was surprised to find a bottle of cognac in one arm of… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth… — Alexey Leonov 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
I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on… — F. R. Scott Copy Share Image
A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image