Christa McAuliffe Quotes

The Space Program is an investment of the nation’s future…. Humans will not be confined to this planet forever.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

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

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.

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

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

Canada and space are a natural fit.

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

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.

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.

There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.

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

Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

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.

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

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