Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning… — Plato Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo,… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain. — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in… — Democritus Copy Share Image
We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark… — William Anders Copy Share Image
The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science,… — Robert A. Baker Copy Share Image
We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image