Helen Sharman Quotes

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here – our hopes and our journeys continue.

We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.

I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

The astronaut corps is a very small part of a very large team that enables human spaceflight.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

Our goal is to tell people about the International Space Station. I think very rarely people look up 250 miles and think, What are those guys working on, what are those men and women doing at this moment... They're living and doing regular things, but also doing incredible work as well. We really want to bring that to people.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and they weren't prepared with alternative routes to space when that decline became undeniable.

Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots.

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

The Space Program is an investment of the nation’s future…. Humans will not be confined to this planet forever.

If space is not profitable for business, there will be very few people in space.

Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation.

Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.