Mark Kelly Quotes

Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.

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

Space is going to be commonplace.

I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.

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.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

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

The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

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.

A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

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.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

The time will come when we permit more people in space.