Scott Carpenter Quotes

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'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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The future of the human face is space exploration.

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

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it. I just can't stop reading about it or watching videos about it or listening to TED Talks about it.

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

The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

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

I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

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 been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

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

We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.