“Those first few weeks I became acquainted with one of the truths of space travel: it can be very dull.” — David A. Goodman Copy Share Image
Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science. — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
“These beings, with soaring imagination, eventually flung themselves and their machines into interplanetary space.” — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Everyone gets very excited about the idea of space travel, but... it's not going to be everybody that gets to go. — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
“Maybe they had not asked for too much. Maybe they would get everything they wanted.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience. — Buzz Aldrin 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
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of competition and conflict.” — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
All these things that we've contemplated, whether it's space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these… — Oren Etzioni 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
I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More people need to see themselves… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at… — J. G. Ballard 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
“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
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
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
Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or… — Paul Johnson 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
“Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
“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 Copy Share Image
What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Everything tends to become a satellite - even our brains may be said to be outside us now, floating around us in… — Jean Baudrillard 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 is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come. — Nichelle Nichols Copy Share Image
“It was such a change to burst out of the twilight zone suddenly into the panoply of stars and planets. ” — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“Quite a feeling, isn't it? I though I'd lost it forever." "Space travel?" "Hope.” — Nicole Perlman Copy Share Image
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image