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  • We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

    Space   Soul   Needs  
  • 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.

    Summer   Adventure   Moon  
    "It's time to aim for Mars" by Buzz Aldrin, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2009.
  • Of course, I was completely enthralled by the space program as a kid - particularly Apollo 11 - and was glued to the television like most of the world. Then I stopped thinking about it too much. I was a little disappointed that they weren't going on to Mars at the time, but I didn't think much of it. I was more interested in becoming a director at that point in my life and falling in love, things like that.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

  • I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.

    Believe   Reality   Space  
  • A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

  • There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

    Speech, New York, N.Y., 12 Oct. 1915
  • Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses of nuclear medicine, an isotope of plutonium is a major energy source in the space program, and the element americium is critical to the smoke detectors in every house in the country.

  • We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles an hour orbitally.

    New York   Space   Tokyo  
    "Richard Branson Wants To Build A Plane That Can Go From New York To Tokyo In 'Less Than An Hour'" by Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. May 6, 2014.
  • It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

    Islands   Space   Long  
  • 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.

    Airplane   Kids   Moon  
  • The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.

    Thinking   Moon   Space  
    Source: www.believermag.com
  • If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

    Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.337, Ballantine Books
  • 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.

    Country   Space   Agency  
  • 'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

  • For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies.

    Source: blog.sfgate.com
  • Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

    Space   Fans   Fiction  
  • 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.

    Moon   Space   Mercury  
  • 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.

    Real   Lying   Believe  
    Buzz Aldrin (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.165, A&C Black
  • Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.

    Baby   Strong   Space  
  • 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.

  • There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

    Attributed in Reader's Digest, May 1961
  • A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes."

  • I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

  • If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.

    Space   People   Leader  
  • The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

    "First on the Moon". Book by Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, 1970.
  • The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote...

    "How to defend Earth from asteroids". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2011.
  • To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

    Moon   Space   Snakes  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.

    Strong   Wall   War  
    Source: blog.sfgate.com
  • Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

    Moon   Men   Feet  
    Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky
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