Brian Blessed Quotes

Finally my dream came true in that there was a possibility that I could travel to the International Space Station. I've gone through the medicals and the training and now I'm officially, by the Russian Space Federation, a cosmonaut in training.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.

Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

I was the 128th human in space. So I didn't really sweat about it.

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

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

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

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

I actually want to go up into space.

Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut.

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.

Go to the moon - that's my dream.

I always knew I'd go to space.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Unless you have manned [space] travel, you don't stir the imagination of people.

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'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

Walking in space is absolutely the most exhilarating part of a mission. The view is just incredible.