Stephen Hawking Quotes

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling.

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

I thought I was prepared for space, and it still absolutely defied every expectation and dream. It is an incredible thing to put yourself on a rocket and launch off the planet. It is an amazing thing to see the planet from space. This blue sphere is almost indescribably beautiful.

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

I actually want to go up into space.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.

I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.

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.

I'd love to go to space. I would love to peek out a giant window and look back at the blue marble. There's no question; I'd love to do that.

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

Finally my dream came true in that there was a possibility that I could travel to the International Space Station. I've gone through the medicals and the training and now I'm officially, by the Russian Space Federation, a cosmonaut in training.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

I'm not going into infinity. I'm going into low earth orbit.

When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

Unless you have manned [space] travel, you don't stir the imagination of people.