Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Quotes

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 been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

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

The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices

The future of the human face is space exploration.

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.

Exploration of closer planets will continue. Only after he exhausts all the resources here on earth will man go further ahead, which is when interplanetary travel may take place.

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

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

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

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

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 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.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

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.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

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.

It is rash to set limits to the progress of science. A man who had maintained at Queen Victoria’s Jubilee that within fifty years one would fly the Atlantic in a matter of hours would have risked being certified and locked up; yet we have seen this happen, and in the circumstances I am not prepared to rule out with any confidence the possibility one day of journeys through space in vessels carrying supplies of food and oxygen to the moon and the nearer planets.

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.

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

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

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