The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores… — Isaac Asimov 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
It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something into the-into the space. — Jim Lovell 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
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
As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the… — Ray Bradbury 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
It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things.… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to… — Carl Sagan 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
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
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
Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have… — Paul Davies 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
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
Unless people can see broad vistas of unused resources in front of them, the belief in limited resources tends to follow as… — Robert Zubrin 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
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they… — Neil Armstrong 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
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
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
I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally. — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there… — Bill Watterson 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
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
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space… — Larry Niven 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
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
If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades. — Freeman Dyson 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
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
Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic. — Paul Horowitz Copy Share Image
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