Alexandra Paul Quotes

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

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

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

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

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

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

If you think that the distance from the Earth to the nearest planet where we could live comfortably... is being, like, from New York to Australia... what we've achieved so far, in going to the moon, that's about two-and-a-half inches. So that's the challenge.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing.

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.

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

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.

We got to the moon.

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

Look how far the human race has come in terms of air and space travel in the last hundred years. So in the next couple of thousand years, you've got to believe that we're going to be able to do all kinds of amazing things.

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.