Blast Quote by Martin Rees

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

— John Glenn

“When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously…

— Adam Higginbotham

“Every time I see a USA rocket launch, I sit there thinking ‘What an obscene waste of money’.”

— Steven Magee

There are 20 different space agencies here in America, and I'm the last person that's put a man in a rocket and launched it.

— Mike Hughes

“When the small plane went airborne without the aid of a single propeller, it made the first American rocket-powered airplane flight.”

— Nathalia Holt

“The Challenger was the first American spacecraft to carry astronauts but have no escape system.”

— Hugh Harris

“The scope and audacity of John Kennedy’s May 25, 1961, message to a joint session of Congress on “Urgent National Needs”—the speech that launched…

— Carl Sagan

My quest to expand access to space began more than a decade ago, when I teamed up with Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites to…

— Paul Allen

A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.

— Jose Bergamin

A guy who builds his own rocket in his garage, about to jump a mile, is pretty cool. It's the most interesting human-interest story…

— Mike Hughes

“On a visit to the space program, President Kennedy asked me about the satellite. I told him that it would be more important than…

— Newton N. Minnow

“It is only a matter of time before the Space program kills a civilian with a piece of rocket or satellite debris.”

— Steven Magee