exploration of outer space Quotes

President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth.

We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.

The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

We want to push mankind's boundaries out a little further.

I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made . . .This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.

From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space; there may be some instances in which we are ahead of you--in color television, for instance.

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.