Star gazing Quotes · Page 2

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

— Jim Lovell

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

— Wally Schirra

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?

— Alan Shepard

Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.

— Charles Duke

“I thought it was time I introduced you to one of my favorite things—star gazing.”

— Alexa Grace

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

— Gene Cernan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

— Carl Sagan

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

— Larry Niven

We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and…

— Eileen Collins

I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither…

— William Shatner

It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

— Neil Armstrong

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

— John F. Kennedy

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space…

— Larry Niven

Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.

— Paul Horowitz

Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the…

— Buzz Aldrin

If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting…

— Freeman Dyson

The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds.…

— Joseph P. Allen

I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things.…

— Scott Carpenter

The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and…

— Neil Armstrong

“There I am in my younger days, star gazing Painting picture perfect maps Of how my life and love would be Not…

— Indigo Girls

We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets…

— Walter Cronkite

Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory?…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible…

— Carl Sagan

Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not…

— Norman Mailer

If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth…

— Frank J. Tipler

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

Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure…

— Martin Rees

In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have…

— Paul Davies

Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes,…

— William E. Burrows

Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world…

— Isaac Asimov

I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

— Burt Rutan

Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.

— Alan Shepard

This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

— Robert Crippen

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

— Arthur C. Clarke

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

— Pablo Picasso

The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's.

— Shannon Lucid

I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.

— Edward Higgins White