David Hoffman Quotes

I'm a major NASA nerd, so I've spent a lot of time learning about the space race and the Apollo missions.

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that inspired me to be an astronaut, and, of course, the backdrop is nothing less than Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. That was a time in our nation where we aspired to great things, and we achieved them.

There is hardly a facet of an Indian citizen that has not been touched by ISRO's technology.

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

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

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.