About Quote by Burt Rutan

Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast,…

— Burt Rutan

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

— Buzz Aldrin

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

— Stephen Hawking

Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various companies…

— Buzz Aldrin

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being…

— Angela Cartwright

I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into…

— John Glenn

If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing…

— Walter Lang

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

— John L. Phillips

Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and…

— Peter Diamandis

With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to…

— Richard Branson

Things felt pretty crazy on earth in 1969, but the cosmos was friendly. Astronauts had round-trip tickets; they got home.

— David Ignatius

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought…

— Donald A. Wollheim