Quotes About Space

From my perspective, it's really risk management to ensure that humans have the ability to go somewhere else in case there were to be some huge disaster on Earth.

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

I applied to NASA four times. And finally, they said, Wally, you know, we're sorry, but you don't have an engineering degree. I said, well, I'll get one.

I'd like to convince you that the universe has a soundtrack and that soundtrack is played on space itself, because space can wobble like a drum.

A day will come when other Israelis will be launched into space in the service of science and progress. For them and for us, Ilan Ramon will always be a source of inspiration as Israel's space pioneer, and his memory will be engraved in our hearts forever.

The economics of the space industry are changing. Within so called 'NewSpace,' not only are new entrants being created almost daily, the business models and capital sources have proven to be dramatically different from traditional models built upon large government contracts and defence-related spending.

My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that inspired me to be an astronaut, and, of course, the backdrop is nothing less than Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. That was a time in our nation where we aspired to great things, and we achieved them.

The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me.

The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.

Houston, we've had a problem.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

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

The heart looks into space to be away from earth.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.