Earth Quote by Carrie Nugent

Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them -…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very…

— Rusty Schweickart

On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give them any…

— Carrie Nugent

Most astronauts are very down-to-earth people. Many of us, three-quarters, have an engineering degree, and we have a very Cartesian, rational approach to things.

— Julie Payette

Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge…

— Roman Romanenko

Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could…

— Enrico Fermi

The reality of space travel I think is somewhere in the middle. We will get there, it will be hard, it will take a…

— Jon Spaihts

The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you can predict…

— Rusty Schweickart

We've got to go back to the space station and back to the moon and Mars and beyond, because there is a lot of…

— Jared Isaacman

The basic method to find asteroids hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. So asteroids in a telescope look just like stars with one…

— Carrie Nugent

I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God, the fact that we have no control…

— Carrie Nugent