MySpace Space Quotes

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.. If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Carl Sagan

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. Robert Heinlein

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. Lord Kelvin, 1892

I know how to never have another Challenger. I know how to never have another leak, and never to screw up another mirror, and that is to stop and build some shopping centers in the desert. J. R. Thompson

...space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space. Christa McAuliffe

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. William Shatner

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. Neil Armstrong

It's been a long way, but we're here. Alan Shepard

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. John Glenn