Laurel Clark Quotes

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.

A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.

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

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

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

So much had already been done in space before that, it had all been documented and there were no real surprises in store for us.

We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once.

Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren't that much closer. Our home, the International Space Station, orbits around the Earth at about 200 miles.

Space is really domain expansion.

Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.

On the second flight, we were doing a lot of science experiments, and we've got a really cool window called the cupola. It's a big, circular window with six panes around, sort of at angles so you can see the Earth, you can see the edge of the Earth, you can go out - look out into the universe. It's pretty spectacular.

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 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.

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 always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.

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 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.

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.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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.

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

The view from space is really very special. From the window, you can look back at the Earth and see the stars around you. I just hope that more people from Britain get the chance to experience it.