Able Quote by Theodore Hesburgh

Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what…

— Mae Jemison

For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans…

— David Hoffman

I'm fortunate to have viewed our Earth from the moon and that vision has convinced me that technology and commitment will conquer any challenge.

— Jack Swigert

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

From the moment those images of Buzz and Neil arrived on the world's television sets, our human space program has been lost - for…

— Rick Tumlinson

The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos…

— Aleksandra Mir

The most breathtaking thing about being in space is actually looking back at the Earth.

— Richard Branson

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong…

— Bill Nye

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet…

— Margaret Mead

America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of…

— Alan Stern

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being…

— Angela Cartwright

When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only…

— Sarah Parcak