Quotes About Exploration

Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.

I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.

It's so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.

I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I learned that space exploration was real. I wanted to get involved in that. I knew I wanted to be a scientist.

I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.

I believe that history will record Inspiration4 as a pivotal moment in space exploration, as another important step towards humanity's next great rendezvous with destiny out in space.

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

When I was in kindergarten, I remember looking at picture books of the space shuttle.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's quite an achievement.

When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the simplest things end up causing them not to happen. Humans are 100-pound bags of water, built to live on Earth.

I believe you'll see a low Earth orbit space travel business begin.

Everyone gets very excited about the idea of space travel, but... it's not going to be everybody that gets to go.

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.

I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More people need to see themselves as a part of space travel; we need to see more inclusiveness.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

I think every time we send a spacecraft to an asteroid or comet, we learn more.

New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful battery of scientific instrumentation ever brought to bear on a first reconnaissance mission.

The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft made flybys of the planet. These celebrated events were the opening acts in the story of humanity's exploration of Saturn.

I think that, a lot of times, people have this idea that the solar system is entirely explored, that we have sent spacecraft to every planet, we've taken beautiful pictures of everything, and that it's kind of done.

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft sped through the Saturnian system more than a quarter of a century ago, it came within 90,000 kilometers of the moon Enceladus. Over the course of a few hours, its cameras returned a handful of images that confounded planetary scientists for years.