George W. Bush Quotes

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

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

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

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.

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.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.

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

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

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

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.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

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

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.

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

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.

I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts.

Space is something which makes us question our role here on Earth. It brings out the best of our hopes and dreams.

I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the Hubble Space Telescope.