“The moon, the serene moon, was creating a conflict of opinion in America almost as violent as the racial problem.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked. — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
“We are in the process of finding out what filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of satellites does to all life… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.” — Anonymous 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
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 am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as… — Randy Forbes Copy Share Image
Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon.… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective comes from the frontiers of science, yet it is not solely the provenance of the scientist. It belongs to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“We have a very short window in which to accomplish a great deal, one measured in minutes rather than hours. “We succeed,… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on… — Charles Bolden Copy Share Image
Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over. — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
“NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.” — Will Chabot Copy Share Image
Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
“Ah, youth! It was a beautiful night... The moon was out of orbit. The stars were awry. But everything else was exactly… — Roman Payne 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
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
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
We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only… — Ilan Ramon Copy Share Image
The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below. — Willy Ley Copy Share Image
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The man who eventually reached the moon would be traveling in a vessel made of earthly materials.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much money,' I say, 'I absolutely… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
