Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet. — Rusty Schweickart 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
“I don't need you on your back for anything Martise, unless you want to go star-gazing with me.” — Grace Draven Copy Share Image
I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know.… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves. — Carl Sagan 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
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no… — William Anders 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
I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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
The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds.… — Joseph P. Allen 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
I would spend hours and hours gazing at the stars and wondering, what's out there? Sometimes I wondered if maybe there was… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on… — John F. Kennedy 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
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
Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition… — Robert Zubrin 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
“We tend to be unaware that stars rise and set at all. This is not entirely due to our living in cities… — Robert K.G. Temple Copy Share Image
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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
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
Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations. — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me. — Robert Crippen 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
Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is… — Gherman Titov 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
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