Karl Schroeder Quotes

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.

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.

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

Space is going to be commonplace.

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

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.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

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.

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

I get standing ovations at meetings when I say Britain should be involved in human spaceflight. Unfortunately, that goal has been blocked by a handful of people in high office.

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

I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons - women and men - will travel into space.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.

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

I think we know how to do Mars.

I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent years.

It was an incredible series, 'From The Earth To The Moon.' All of it's great.