Kathleen Rubins Quotes

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

It is rash to set limits to the progress of science. A man who had maintained at Queen Victoria’s Jubilee that within fifty years one would fly the Atlantic in a matter of hours would have risked being certified and locked up; yet we have seen this happen, and in the circumstances I am not prepared to rule out with any confidence the possibility one day of journeys through space in vessels carrying supplies of food and oxygen to the moon and the nearer planets.

A lot of people, I think, would love to see the earth from above, wear a spacesuit. Certainly, when I was a kid, I wanted to wear a spacesuit.

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

Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

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

I've wanted to go to space, really, since I was a little girl.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

I always knew I'd go to space.

… conquering space …

You know, west Texas is already beautiful to view from the ground. I can't even imagine what it must look like as you're floating down to Earth in a capsule making its return trip from outer space.

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'm looking forward to getting to space, looking back to earth out the copula window. I think all of it is going to be a completely new experience that I can't quite predict.

The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.

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

I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.

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've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

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.

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

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

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