Space Flight Quotes

Space Flight Quote of the day

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and the universe.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.

The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a DIY space flight.

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

By the way, Japan is also known to be actively engaged in manned space flights as part of the International Space Station.

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

At this point I thought 'We made it, ' by which I meant 'We survived.' I also was acutely aware that my childhood dream of flying into space had just come true.

I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.