David Weber Quotes

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

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

Space is going to be commonplace.

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.

Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.

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

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 remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

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

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.

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.

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.

The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.

We cannot wait for the next Kennedy to set us on our path to the stars.

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.

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

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

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.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

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

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.