Audie Murphy 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.

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

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

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 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.

I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

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

We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for America's future in space.

When I was a child, and I was at our school, everybody's parents were involved in space program. In every class, we have several kids whose fathers were flown cosmonauts or who prepared for the 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.

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

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

As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

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 been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

In 2025, don't be surprised if a Chinese flag is placed on the moon.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

I actually want to go up into space.