Hanna Rosin Quotes

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.

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

When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first left Earth will be of huge importance. Star City is a central part of this story and it deserves more recognition.

Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

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.

There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.

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'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent years.

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

Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

Space is going to be commonplace.

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

I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

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.

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

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

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.