“Well, then, someone just tell me how we got here!" Calvin's voice was still angry and his freckles seemed to stand out… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Coolidge and his treasury secretary Mellon loved new technology. Like JFK, C.C. divined that a new technology could lift the nation out… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel — Walter Dornberger Copy Share Image
Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
No one cares about race or religion or nationality in space travel. We're all just part of Team Human. — Anne McClain Copy Share Image
It was the era when women were in the kitchen. Space travel was the old-boy network. — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
“No avian society ever develops space travel because it's impossible to focus on calculus when you could be outside flying.” — XKCD Copy Share Image
Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more? — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion. — Aaron Cohen Copy Share Image
It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever,… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
I'd really love to go for a fourth trip into space with maybe Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Boisclair, and I am convinced,… — Marc Garneau Copy Share Image
While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first… — Helen Sharman Copy Share Image
Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more… — Lisa Nowak Copy Share Image
I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
“She and Kennedy both dove for the power connector; Kennedy reached it first and yanked out the connection as Alex landed on… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“THERE IT IS,’ my mother says, and what she means is that the dot we’ve been nearing for weeks, the one that’s… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
You don't look at the big problem all together, because I think it's a little intimidating. So you just take it one… — Sunita Williams Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
“I will tell you sincerely and without exaggeration that the best part of lunch today at the NASA Ames cafeteria is the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a… — George Alec Effinger Copy Share Image
“To the rocket scientist, you are a problem. You are the most irritating piece of machinery he or she will ever have… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space. — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I believe you'll see a low Earth orbit space travel business begin. — Dennis Muilenburg Copy Share Image
Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. “Because you are a romantic,” his pedia said.” — James Edwin Gunn Copy Share Image
The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community. — Ray Bradbury 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
