Spacecraft Quotes
41 quotes by 33 authors
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Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It…
— Stephen Hawking
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I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.
— Trevor Paglen
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It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.
— Alan Stern
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We would like to give special thanks to all those Americans who built the spacecraft; who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their…
— Neil Armstrong
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You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an…
— William Anders
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A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it…
— Eileen Collins
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I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I…
— Elon Musk
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I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with…
— Kevin A. Ford
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Q: What were you thinking when your colleagues were out there making cosmic history? A: I just kept reminding myself that every single component in…
— Michael Collins
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Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut." Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward…
— Eoin Colfer
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Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth.…
— Brian Cox
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
— Nathan Myhrvold
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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized…
— Edgar Mitchell
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It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
— Rusty Schweickart
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Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly one-third of the…
— Seth Shostak
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The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the…
— Seth Shostak
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A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft…
— Buzz Aldrin
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NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.
— Marc Garneau
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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor
— Wernher von Braun
Who Wrote These Spacecraft Quotes
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