Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me. — Robert Crippen 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
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 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
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 have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now. — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
I have a strong feeling about interesting people in space exploration. . . . And the only way it's going to happen… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves. — 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
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
... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image