William Safire Quotes

As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.

Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.

Putting a man on the moon united our nation in victory and we've collectively mourned through tragedies such as Apollo 1, the Challenger and Columbia.

We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Space is going to be commonplace.

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionately that this is an interesting human adventure. This is one of the things we're doing that is really fundamentally important, as we leave our home planet, but also exciting.

I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.

In the late '60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space Race.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.

I actually don't remember Apollo 11 exactly because, at the time, I was five years old. The landing happened at night, and the walk on the moon happened at night eastern time, and I asked my parents; my mom said I was probably asleep, and so I just don't have any recollection. I do have recollection of the later missions to the moon.

As long as I could remember, I had looked forward to a handful of wonderful events - a total eclipse of the sun, the return of Halley's Comet, and the first trip to the Moon. I've still never seen that eclipse, and Halley's comet was a disappointment, but my sense of wonder was diamond-bright on that July 20, 1969.