John Glenn Quotes

Canada and space are a natural fit.

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

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

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.

I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons - women and men - will travel into space.

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

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

Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.

As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

NASA has made a difference.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

The economic function of space industrialization is to generate jobs on Earth, not in space.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.