Quotes About Exploration

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

My quest to expand access to space began more than a decade ago, when I teamed up with Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites to build SpaceShipOne. This innovative air-launched vehicle was the world's first private spacecraft to carry an astronaut into sub-orbital space.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

I used the Internet as a vehicle to get places not many people did before.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts.

In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.

I think maybe the vehicle for me was 'Sam Cooke's Greatest Hits.' It has a song called, 'Touch the Hem of His Garment.' Do you know that song? I kind of got obsessed with that song and started exploring and getting more of his old recordings with the Soul Stirrers and really getting into that super, super deeply.

Blue Origin's successful capsule escape demonstration represents a material step toward a fully re-usable sub-orbital vehicle.

I always have a vehicle wherever I go, everything from weird motorcycles with side cars to old Jeep Willeys to beat up Defenders in Africa, you name it.

No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that money for incentives to the private sector, we would today probably have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles.

It's hard to find vehicles for your music.

My family did a lot of road trips across these continental United States when I was a kid. Twenty or so of us would caravan in four or five vehicles and hit every corner of the connected 48.

Vehicles are just something I have always felt connected to whether it is the bus or the plane.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

I've always wanted to write science fiction. It was one of my first loves, and I knew if I became a writer someday I'd probably write something in the science fiction vein, but I hesitated for a long while because it's such well-trod ground.

Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.

There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite.

I wanted to write a first contact thing and I vaguely knew I wanted it to be in a beating the beast vein.