Valentina Tereshkova Quotes

When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first left Earth will be of huge importance. Star City is a central part of this story and it deserves more recognition.

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

The first news event I understood as a small child was the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, which President Reagan eloquently mourned from the Oval that evening.

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

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.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

It's really kind of a challenge to keep coordinated with the two station crews that we'll be interacting with. And of course one of them launched quite some time before our mission.

Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

Houston, we've had a problem.

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

When my father died, those years when he was working on the Hubble came back to me, and it seemed fitting to imagine him as having somehow merged with the large mystery that the universe represents.

With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind.

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.