Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble,… — James Irwin Copy Share Image
Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds… — Charles Sheldon Copy Share Image
UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain?… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would spend hours and hours gazing at the stars and wondering, what's out there? Sometimes I wondered if maybe there was… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic. — Paul Horowitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Earth has provided a stable platform for the evolution of life over 4 billion years. But that lease is limited; we know… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt. — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life. — Edward Higgins White Copy Share Image
It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things.… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image