William S. Burroughs Quotes

Finally my dream came true in that there was a possibility that I could travel to the International Space Station. I've gone through the medicals and the training and now I'm officially, by the Russian Space Federation, a cosmonaut in training.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.

You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

I actually want to go up into space.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them that bridging the distance from one star to the next could take hundreds of thousands of years or more.

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

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.

I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

The Space Program is an investment of the nation’s future…. Humans will not be confined to this planet forever.

Unless you have manned [space] travel, you don't stir the imagination of people.

Humanity is not forever chained to this planet.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

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