Walter Lang Quotes

We're not up here visiting space, we're up here living in space.

Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those are the kinds of things we're learning from the science. Fuel transfer technologies and all the things we can learn about the space environment are all valuable to us for pressing on out.

Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.

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

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.

The earth appears fragile and defenceless in the harsh environment of space and when one sees the amount of technology required to keep a human alive in that environment, one begins to feel blessed that one is an inhabitant of planet earth that supports human life.

Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.

We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.

Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.

Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.

The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity.

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight.

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

We must become a space-faring nation.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Not only shall we be able to cruise in space, …

There are many in the field of cosmology, who believe as I do, that finding ways to travel great distances will be essential to keeping human kind alive in an aging universe.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

Why would you need to expand beyond the solar system if you already have access to all the information you need, and you've essentially insulated yourself against a planetary apocalypse? Maybe that's enough.

My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with it - then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.

One of the coolest things to me about living in space was it really caused me to think about how the human body and mind can adapt to completely different environments.

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.

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.