Back Quote by Jim Lovell

Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the…

— George Steiner

As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles…

— Buzz Aldrin

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

— Richard Branson

“I want him to know nothing but gentle landings.”

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

— Terry McMillan

“Night landings were a routine part of carrier operations—and perhaps the best of all examples of how a man’s accumulated good works did him…

— Tom Wolfe

“Space flight participants, commonly known as space tourists, pay between $20 and $40 million each to leave Earth for 10 days or so and…

— Chris Hadfield

I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.

— Edward Higgins White

“Space flight alone doesn’t do the trick. These days, anyone who has deep enough pockets and good enough health can go to space. Space…

— Chris Hadfield

By the way, Japan is also known to be actively engaged in manned space flights as part of the International Space Station.

— Vladimir Putin

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one…

— Chris Hadfield

I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its…

— Donald A. Wollheim

Most of my family and friends are very familiar with the human space flight program and with the excitement of becoming an astronaut.

— Shannon Walker

“With almost no internal opposition, both the Senate and the House of Representatives responded to Kennedy’s challenge by increasing funds for the agency that…

— Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson

The most striking thing to me about human space flight and my own personal experience is that I've seen dramatic changes on Earth. We…

— John M. Grunsfeld