Trevor Paglen Quotes

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

I believe movies are showing us what we already know with aliens especially, so when we do get to meet them it's not a big shock.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

I think we know how to do Mars.

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.

I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts.

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon. Outside the gravitational field of Earth, we could launch robotic spacecraft to other destinations in our solar system.

I believe in the importance of flying in space and the research that we do.

I would love to set foot on another planet - lunar or Mars or somewhere.

So much had already been done in space before that, it had all been documented and there were no real surprises in store for us.

By opening space, for the first time in our history, rather than inexorably extracting the blood of life from this oh-so-precious sphere in our quest for wealth, we will turn outwards and upwards, creating new wealth from places already dead, advancing into places where there is no life, and bringing its seeds with us.

I am a space geek now.

I think obviously there is some kind of life form somewhere else. Whether it looks like the creature in 'Alien Autopsy,' I'm not sure.

It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it.

How can you say that Neil Armstrong went up to the moon in a little spaceship just for the craic but another planet can't send someone here?

We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once.

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.