Attractive Quote by Wilson Greatbatch

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near…

— Wilson Greatbatch

At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster…

— Isaac Asimov

It's easy to reckon that the oomph to hurl even a Smart Car-size spacecraft to another star at, say, 20 percent the speed of…

— Seth Shostak

Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave…

— Fritz Zwicky

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of…

— Anonymous

“It would have to travel faster than the speed of light!”

— Albert Sartison

I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I…

— Marc Beland

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's…

— Elon Musk

Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable…

— Donald A. Wollheim

I actually want to go up into space.

— Sarah Brightman

Travel requires a great deal of energy - whether you go by car, by bus, by train or plane. We'll likely be using hydrogen…

— Hermann E. Ott

It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging…

— Rusty Schweickart