Bob Barr Quotes

Canada and space are a natural fit.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

When we explore other planets, we learn a lot about our own.

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.

Space is going to be commonplace.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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

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.

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

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.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.

This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth.

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

NASA has made a difference.

NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.

We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

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

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

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.

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.