Mark Kelly Quotes

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.

With the mission to Mars, the whole world wants to get involved. So we actually have 13 different space agencies from around the world working on the global exploration road map.

Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.

Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.

Blue Origin's successful capsule escape demonstration represents a material step toward a fully re-usable sub-orbital vehicle.

I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.

It is only by freeing NASA from routine human transport to low-Earth orbit that we can afford to once again see American astronauts exploring distant worlds.

I'm a strong advocate of new missions to Venus.

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

The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community.

We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote regions on Earth.

Government paved the on-ramp to space. Now, the vehicles taking us up to the space highway are being built by citizens, leveraging off government-catalyzed technologies and needs.

When I got to college, I discovered how many incredible opportunities NASA offered students pursuing a career in the space industry.

Technologically, it is not hard to launch an object into space. Emotionally, it has been difficult.

If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

I think a lot of people interested in space exploration tend to hear stories about the great missions, how they work technically, what we learned. But they don't really hear the story of what it takes to get a mission from scratch to the launch pad and into space.

Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.