Christa McAuliffe Quotes

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

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

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

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

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

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.

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

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

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

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.

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.

When we explore other planets, we learn a lot about our own.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

I was eight years old when I saw the Apollo moon landing in 1969. I was riveted.

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.