Clyde Tombaugh Quotes

Space is going to be commonplace.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

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

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

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

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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

I actually want to go up into space.

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 think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.