“These beings, with soaring imagination, eventually flung themselves and their machines into interplanetary space.” — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
“Sci-Fi, Space-Travel, Space-Opera, Chance-Encounters, Adventure-Reads, Speculative-Fiction, Book-Quotes” — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“The ship doesn't travel through space. It bends space around it. The ship becomes a ghost. It creates its own bubble of… — Eduardo Kim Copy Share Image
Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from… — Ellison Onizuka Copy Share Image
When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
“Transcendence is when God exists outside space and time while immanence is when He is present in time and space. Travel between… — JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA Copy Share Image
Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
Science is not a boy's game, it's not a girl's game. It's everyone's game. It's about where we are and where we're… — Nichelle Nichols Copy Share Image
Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It… — Willy Ley Copy Share Image
With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“When done correctly, space travel can be quite boring. The remaining portion of the voyage went without any major stumbling blocks. The… — J.J. Dreese Copy Share Image
When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our singer, Matt, was reading Stephen Hawking and other physics-related books, and I was reading entrepreneurial books, and we all started discussing… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Space travel is a dream for many men and women. I think my trip will be perceived differently by different genders because… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Imagine you are Siri Keeton: You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I understand that space travel and expansion is just as much about altering ourselves, our attitudes, our social structures, our very biology,… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the simplest things end… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“The ship had made the jump into hyperspace, so there were no stars or worlds to be seen, just a vortex of… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The younger generation of rocket engineers is just beginning. They are of the new generation to which space travel is not going… — Willy Ley Copy Share Image
“long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there—not because they anticipated space travel but because Buddhists… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men… — Leigh Brackett Copy Share Image
I love visiting the Air and Space Museum. It always blows my mind how far we've come from the Wright Brothers in… — Ryan Merchant 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