Earth Orbit Quotes
- I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth… — Wally Schirra
- Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system. — Robert A. Heinlein
- Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before… — Arthur C. Clarke
- History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish… — Buzz Aldrin
- If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to… — Bill Nye
- Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation… — Paul Davies
- I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more… — Buzz Aldrin
- Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to… — Andy Weir