The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand. — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
“I thought it was time I introduced you to one of my favorite things—star gazing.” — Alexa Grace Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks… — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy… — Ilan Ramon Copy Share Image
It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into… — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers. — Buzz Aldrin 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
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
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
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is… — Gerard K. O'Neill 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
There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only… — Isaac Asimov 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
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
Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
Life's Highs... 1. Laughing hysterically 2. Dancing your heart out 3. Star gazing 4. Shopping 5. Going to the beach 6. Listening… — Ritu Ghatourey 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
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
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
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
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum… — Martin Rees 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
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
