Christa McAuliffe Quotes

When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.

Everyone gets very excited about the idea of space travel, but... it's not going to be everybody that gets to go.

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.

One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.

Having grown up on 'Star Trek,' I've had one great dream since childhood, and that is to see my life end somewhere other than here on Earth.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

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

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets.

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.

For the new century, back to the moon, back to the future and this time back to stay. And then a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to Mars.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the simplest things end up causing them not to happen. Humans are 100-pound bags of water, built to live on Earth.

It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it.

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

I choose to go to the Moon with artists. In 2023, as the host, I would like to invite 6 to 8 artists from around the world to join me on this mission to the Moon.

I think you're going to see an interest in space tourism, space travel for the sake of travel.