Back Quote by Wally Schirra

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I don't like the way the whole thing has developed. And I just hope that we develop our own transportation system, both spacecraft and…

— John Glenn

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I…

— Edgar Mitchell

Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to…

— John F. Kennedy

Because now, you know, it's going to be a number of years yet before we have our own new boosters and new spacecraft to…

— John Glenn

I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we…

— Anonymous

“With the launch of Sputnik 7 in 1957 the Soviet Union had scored the first victory in what would be a three–decade space race.…

— Jeffrey Richelson

The Americans are still the leaders in human space flight. I feel we have a danger here of kind of stagnating. We're kind of…

— Leroy Chiao

In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but as we…

— Leroy Chiao

The panic over Sputnik brought many good things such as a huge increase in science funding.

— Dominic Cummings

“December 6 a nationally televised test of the Vanguard missile proved deeply embarrassing. The missile rose two feet off the ground and crashed. Press…

— James T. Patterson

I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into…

— John Glenn