Bruce Pittman Quotes

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.

NASA has made a difference.

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

Throughout Johnson Space Center's history, contributions to STEM innovation and discoveries has been both through new technologies developed to advance human spaceflight and through educating, inspiring, and hiring students in STEM fields.

I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.

I kind of feel like I found my cause in life servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.

In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral.

New Jersey makes important contributions to the space program. We want to make sure it just doesn't happen in Houston.

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.

NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.

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

I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized it was very unlikely that a Mexican kid in the early '70s was going to be an astronaut.

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.

I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.