Spacecraft Quotes

• The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Sports, Giving

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• First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Moon, Men

  Special message to joint session of Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

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• We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

  Wernher von Braun

  Sarcastic, Work, Science

  "On Bureaucracy". "Chicago Sun-Times" Newspaper, July 10, 1958.

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moon, People, Together

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We are dealing with a yet unrecognized level of consciousness, independent of man but closely linked to the earth.... I do not believe anymore that UFOs are simply the spacecraft of some race of extraterrestrial visitors. This notion is too simplistic to explain their appearance, the frequency of their manifestations through recorded history, and the structure of the information exchanged with them during contact.

  Jacques Vallee

  Believe, Independent, Men

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• When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

  Buzz Aldrin

  Needs, Knows

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• Q: What were you thinking when your colleagues were out there making cosmic history? A: I just kept reminding myself that every single component in this spacecraft was provided by the guy who submitted the cheapest tender.

  Michael Collins

  Thinking, Guy, Cosmic

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• Because now, you know, it's going to be a number of years yet before we have our own new boosters and new spacecraft to go to our own International Space Station and proceed with all the research that we spent $100 billion putting up there to give us that research capability for the future for people right here on Earth.

  John Glenn

  Years, Numbers, Space

  "Encore: Astronaut John Glenn Recalls Historic Orbit Of Earth". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. February 20, 2012.

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• I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Dream, Thinking, Class

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• I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.

  Elon Musk

  Car, Want, Rockets

  "Elon Musk On Being A Product-Obsessed 'Nano-Manager': 'It's Not A Recipe For Happiness'" by Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. January 12, 2015.

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• A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Inspiration, Heart, Past

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• You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

  William Anders

  Baseball, Glowing, Flames

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• We would like to give special thanks to all those Americans who built the spacecraft; who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their hearts and all their abilities into those craft. To those people tonight, we give a special thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Good night from Apollo 11.

  Neil Armstrong

  Good Night, Heart, People

  Excerpts from Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, edited by Edgar M. Cortright, NASA SP-350, Washington, DC, amview.japan.usembassy.gov. 1975.

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• To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.

  George Takei

  Reality, Thinking, Space

  Source: progressive.org

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• It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

  Alan Stern

  Moon, Jupiter, Nine

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• Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.

  Neil Armstrong

  Powerful, Moon, Technology

  Interview at "The New Space Race", August 2007.

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• Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.

  Chet Raymo

  Beautiful, Eye, Night

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• I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Persons

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• A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Opportunity, Space, Long

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• It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Earth, Asteroids, Would Be

  "Nudging Killer Asteroids Off Course". "All Things Considered" with Nell Greenfieldboyce, www.npr.org. November 10, 2005.

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• On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. It was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft. So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And i feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moving, Moon, Light

  "What 'Gravity' got right and other nuggets from Buzz Aldrin's Reddit AMA". Reddit AMA, www.al.com. July 08, 2014.

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• Dr. Lecter would have more sustenance on the spacecraft from Alien because there are more people to eat. I think he'd get hungry after a while in the Overlook - I can't imagine him eating canned food.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, People, Drs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly circling Earth until the Sun turns into a Red Giant, about five billion years from now.

  Trevor Paglen

  Years, Civilization, Orbit

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• Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render.

  Jon Spaihts

  Zero, Space, Gravity

  Source: www.mtv.com

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