Eugene Cernan Quotes

We cannot wait for the next Kennedy to set us on our path to the stars.

Space is going to be commonplace.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

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.

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

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

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.

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices

Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.

I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.

I believe in the importance of flying in space and the research that we do.

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.

In order to be stimulated or moved in the future, we probably have to go into space and look at our world from there.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

I actually want to go up into space.