Blood Quote by Norman Mailer

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

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought…

— Donald A. Wollheim

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

— Sally Ride

A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without…

— Maurice Wilkes

“The glass display cases had shown rock-throwers crafted by the Australian aborigines - like giant wooden shoehorns, they'd looked, but smoothed and carved and…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

There had been a number of failures but we weren't going out to ride a failure. And we felt they'd corrected all the difficulties…

— John Glenn

“College feminists made fun of skyscrapers, saying they were phallic symbols. They said the same thing about space rockets, even though, if you stopped…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

— Robert Aickman

“Tsiolkovsky had no need for a lathe or a drill because he produced his results using the traditional tools of design engineering: pen and…

— K. Eric Drexler

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.

— Anthony Head

The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to…

— Henry Petroski