Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth:… — Alfred Worden Copy Share Image
We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a… — Marshall Savage Copy Share Image
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own.… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the… — Sara Seager Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience. — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on… — Michael Foale Copy Share Image
There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I know enough about the moon to know how unpleasant and inhospitable it is. . . . I know enough about Mars… — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less.… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
I don't play golf and I don't collect stamps. I don't ride horses. I don't go mountain hiking, I don't go star… — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
