Leroy Chiao Quotes

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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

America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.

NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.

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

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

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

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.

Our country... invests a tiny fraction of 1 percent in NASA, and this is what's so amazing to me, is with that small investment, we do so much for the country.

NSS is delighted to support the New Horizons mission by helping to share this exciting milestone in space exploration with the general public in America and around the world.

NASA has made a difference.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.

NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

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

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

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.

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

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

Canada and space are a natural fit.

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 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.

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.