Space exploration Quote by Chris Hadfield

All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to…

— John M. Grunsfeld

Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for…

— Alan G. Poindexter

Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.

— Aaron Cohen

“How many extraordinary phenomena like this, so foreign to human comprehension, might lie concealed in space? Do we need to travel everywhere bringing destructive…

— Stanislaw Lem

Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

NASA is so risk-averse. That's insane for exploration.

— Robert Bigelow

Congress often covers the exposed crotch of our human spaceflight program with the figleaf of science when it's an obvious lie to justify the…

— Rick Tumlinson

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

— Gene Kranz

Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves…

— Lisa Nowak

I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it…

— Story Musgrave

“I consider Space-X to be far more dangerous than the Chinese Space program.”

— Steven Magee

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

— Chris Hadfield