Quotes about Space exploration

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Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Pushing the boundaries and uniting the world: That’s what Mars One is about. — Nico Marquardt
Discovery first flew in 1984, the third orbiter to join the fleet. It was named for one of the ships commanded by Captai — Margaret Lazarus Dean, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Ideally, the ISS program will just be one more incremental step on an expanding, incredible journal of exploration and u — Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives. — Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
The venture into space is meaningless unless it coincides with a certain interior expansion, an ever-growing universe wi — Loren Eiseley, The Star Thrower
Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed—if they’re here, I want to know about them. — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
When I review my travels among the astronauts, my mind's eye goes first to the Houston shopping mall where Alan Bean sat — Andrew Smith, Moondust
Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried — Andrew Smith, Moondust
Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it wa — Andrew Smith, Moondust
Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnol — Andrew Smith, Moondust
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to toler — Gene Roddenberry
The one that will put the first human colony on another planet is certainly the most important human on Earth. And you c — Robin Sacredfire
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a — Larry Niven