Bruce Pittman Quotes

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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.

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

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.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Our country... invests a tiny fraction of 1 percent in NASA, and this is what's so amazing to me, is with that small investment, we do so much for the country.

America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.

NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

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

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.

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.

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

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.

Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.

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.

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

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

The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.

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

New Horizons isn't just visiting Pluto; it's visiting this entire region. Whatever it finds, this will be a signal moment for planetary exploration - the capstone to our first reconnaissance of the planets of our solar system.

I'm a major NASA nerd, so I've spent a lot of time learning about the space race and the Apollo missions.