The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life. — Edward Higgins White Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Sometimes while gazing at the night sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.” — Richelle E. Goodrich 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 Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its… — George Santayana 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
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
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on… — Carl Sagan 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
Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It… — Willy Ley 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
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is… — Richard P. Feynman 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
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
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 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
What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and… — Alexey Leonov 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
I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally. — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle,… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization. — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog. — Neil Armstrong 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
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great… — John Glenn 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
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
Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't… — Frank Drake 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
And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released… — Anonymous 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
