Chris Hadfield Quotes

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

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.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

Spaceflight is a tricky business. It is definitely difficult, and I think we forget that sometime.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

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.

Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.

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

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

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

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

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow.

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

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

Man must rise above the Earth -- to the top of the atmosphere and beyond -- for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives