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
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
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
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
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“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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“Sometime we don't always get what we want!" shouted Evie, not knowing herself. "That's life!"... The Captain, still looking at her, raised… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
“Magic is the first language of the world. It was the language before words, before mathematics. Humanity can accept concepts like space… — Rosella Testa Copy Share Image
As you begin to create more destinations, that will naturally create a stronger economic pipeline for space. And just as we have… — Dennis Muilenburg 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
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
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
“Joan knew then that Donna was not an idiot. And the Beatles were not nonsense. And that there had always been a… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
We should explore new ways to drive down the cost of space travel. instead of costly booster rockets, maybe we should think… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could,… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
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“But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“The words beat through me like a cosmic string that threatened to dissolve my molecular bonds. The wave fed upon itself until… — William David Hannah Copy Share Image
Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
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From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“… the vices and wickedness of the Secular Era, some of which still lingered, he said, in the cities of the East… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I'd like to get shot into space. I'd like to potentially visit the moon. I don't know if I can do that… — Rob Dyrdek Copy Share Image
“Humans spent thousands of years looking up at the stars and wondering what was out there. You guys never saw stars at… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .'… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
![“Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life . . . they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing . . . and nobody can tell you different.” quote by Ben Bova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/565/ben-bova-26822_astronaut_up-here-in-space-you-re-free-really-free_819143.jpg)
