Quotes About Exploration

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.

Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!

The head of NASA ought to be a space professional, not a politician.

You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.

We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for America's future in space.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.

I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

I have the space and liberty to create.

My coaches - and even my parents - wanted to give me the space for exploration to see what I could do. Or even to see what I couldn't do and what I would want to learn how to do. It was always about inspiring me and giving me that freedom that you would want in childhood.

Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

When you look at the darkest areas in space, you feel that there's something out there that we don't know about.