I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
“One consequence of this train of argument is that, even if civilizations commonly arise on planets throughout the Galaxy, few of them… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture. — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment.… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
As I'm sure you may know, I'm planning to become a spaceflight participant and have been recently approved to begin my spaceflight… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access. — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
“The scope and audacity of John Kennedy’s May 25, 1961, message to a joint session of Congress on “Urgent National Needs”—the speech… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to… — David Weber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs. — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts.… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline. — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test.… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.' — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion,… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can… — Jeff Bezos 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
NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
