Adolescent Quote by Geoffrey Rush

At a young age, I became interested in space and science after watching the U.S. land on the moon for the first time.

— Shannon Walker

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then…

— Linda M. Godwin

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we…

— Andy Weir

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really…

— Ron Howard

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without…

— Jeff Bezos

I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule,…

— Allison Schroeder

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about…

— Laurel Clark

I always was fascinated by space and always wanted to learn more about it and wanted to experience it first hand by flying into…

— Anousheh Ansari

The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39.…

— Ray Bradbury

I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I…

— David Grinspoon

I'm really fascinated by the moon.

— Cree Summer

I was born in 1960, and space theory, especially in the last part of that time and going into the '70s, space was very…

— Sarah Brightman