Seth Shostak Quotes

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

I am a space geek now.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

Since I walked in the door as secretary of energy, I've been doing everything in our powers to do what we can to reduce these gas prices. ... So, of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up; we want it to go down.

There are many in the field of cosmology, who believe as I do, that finding ways to travel great distances will be essential to keeping human kind alive in an aging universe.

Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.

Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.

Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave the earth. It would suffice to accelerate the sun itself to a very high speed and let it drag all its planets with it.

I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I learned that space exploration was real. I wanted to get involved in that. I knew I wanted to be a scientist.

I personally look forward to building the Orion. I believe that our country needs to pursue that technology.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

I'm kind of a bit of a space nerd. I like all of that kind of stuff.

My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.

When I became an astronaut, I was an engineer.

I have long been fond of comparing Workday strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon.

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.

I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe.

When I got to college, I discovered how many incredible opportunities NASA offered students pursuing a career in the space industry.

If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it. I just can't stop reading about it or watching videos about it or listening to TED Talks about it.

I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because I really like space. But I didn't go to the army.

It seemed to me that NASA, especially Goddard, was the place where I could carry out the dreams that I had, which were to push forward an experiment that would measure the big bang radiation better than anyone had ever tried before. Therefore, it seemed like the perfect place to go.

I always call myself a space construction worker.

Further ahead, I'd like to see tiny spacebots - smaller than your cell phone - travel outside our solar system to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. By keeping the mass of those spacebots low, we could more easily accelerate them.