Space travel Quotes

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

— Carl Sagan

“That was a hell of a thing.”

— Engineer Fred Kwan Galaxy Quest

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

— Samuel Beckett

“Mars looks like Vegas without the casinos.”

— Sam Neill

Through you, we feel as giants, once again.

— Ronald Reagan

“Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S. Enterprise?”

— Dan Brown

“Burn bright before you burn out!”

— K. A. Phillips

Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.

— George Lucas

It was the era when women were in the kitchen. Space travel was the old-boy network.

— Wally Funk

“If the space travel is at the top of a country’s agenda, that country is surely a very developed one!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

— Margaret Atwood

“Quite a feeling, isn't it? I though I'd lost it forever." "Space travel?" "Hope.”

— Nicole Perlman

“It was such a change to burst out of the twilight zone suddenly into the panoply of stars and planets.
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— Max Nowaz

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

— Felix Baumgartner

The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

— Robert A. Heinlein

No one cares about race or religion or nationality in space travel. We're all just part of Team Human.

— Anne McClain

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative…

— Christa McAuliffe

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

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the…

— Christa McAuliffe

“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

I understand that space travel and expansion is just as much about altering ourselves, our attitudes, our social structures, our very biology,…

— Kameron Hurley

The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination…

— Mark Gatiss

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

Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession…

— Eric Frank Russell

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

All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many…

— Isaac Asimov

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

“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

Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It…

— Willy Ley

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

Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These…

— Dan Brown

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

“Everything tends to become a satellite - even our brains may be said to be outside us now, floating around us in…

— Jean Baudrillard

“I will tell you sincerely and without exaggeration that the best part of lunch today at the NASA Ames cafeteria is the…

— Mary Roach

Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never…

— Arthur C. Clarke

What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind…

— Ken Wilber

“Glacier blue plasma rippled and sparked across the interior of the portal. “It seems keeping secrets is what you do.” “Secrets are…

— G.S. Jennsen

“Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build…

— Ray Bradbury

“Smiling now, Michael Dawn sat on his rooftop, gazing at the stars above him, just like men had done for thousands of…

— John A. Ashley

In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is…

— James Van Allen