Accomplished Quote by Richard van der Riet Woolley

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

— Michael P. Anderson

“Rocket science is not really rocket science.”

— Haresh Sippy

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like…

— Alan Shepard

“We are out of munitions, We will have to depend on theoretical physics. (Spoken in the heat of battle by Sammuil Petrovitch in Theories…

— Simon Morden

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

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

— Simon Newcomb

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Technologically, it is not hard to launch an object into space. Emotionally, it has been difficult.

— Trevor Paglen

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than…

— Carl Jung

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

— Aaron Cohen

We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable…

— Anonymous

“As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing…

— Auguste Piccard