Space Program Quotes - Page 3

• Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

  Bill Nye

  Space, Fans, Fiction

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• I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true future of space travel does not lie with government agencies -- NASA is still obsessed with the idea that the primary purpose of the space program is science -- but real progress will come from private companies competing to provide the ultimate adventure ride, and NASA will receive the trickle-down benefits.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Real, Lying, Believe

  Buzz Aldrin (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.165, A&C Black

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• By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Summer, Adventure, Moon

  "It's time to aim for Mars" by Buzz Aldrin, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2009.

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• The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

  Sally Ride

  Space, Different, Astronaut

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• If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Believe, Space

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• If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Jobs, Space, Done

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• As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

  Randy Forbes

  Space, House, Program

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• NASA is moving the space program to Starkville because it has no atmosphere.

  Skip Bertman

  Moving, Space, Atmosphere

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• To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

  Al Gore

  Moon, Space, Snakes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.

  John L. Phillips

  Space, Agency, Progress

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• If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.

  Mary Roach

  Guarantees That, Space, Way

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• Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Believe, Space, Doe

  "Seth MacFarlane on hosting the Oscars, being hated by 'South Park'". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.cnn.com. December 11, 2012.

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• 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.

  Linda M. Godwin

  Moon, Space, Mercury

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• The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Moon, Views, Space

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Space, Agency

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• One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Jobs, School, Math

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because I think we need it.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Thinking, Space, Finals

  Source: collider.com

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• Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Thumbs, Dinosaurs

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.66, Prometheus Books

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