When folks are in desperate times - say, like being stuck in the middle of a long-running interplanetary war - they grasp onto anything that might keep them afloat.
Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.
The vast interplanetary and vast interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe. We shall find them to be already full of this wonderful medium; so full that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of space or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity.
Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.
By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
Language is a virus from outer space.
I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.
When Leo takes the record from me, it will hurt a little. But it's not just anyone taking it away. It's not a normal person. A Martian is taking it from me. That makes me feel a little better.
'E.T.' was far-fetched. 'E.T.' was this wimpy-looking kid that came to Earth to pick some plants, but he came from the Andromeda Galaxy to do that.
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
In the future we're going to have interplanetary, we're going to have two planets that human beings are living on.
There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.
I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.
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.
Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.
The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.
People see space as a place where you go and cooperate.
Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.
The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.
There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with.
