Quotes

“Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. still to come: Mars being stepped on.” – Buzz Aldrin

“When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.” – Astronaut Alan Shepard looking at Earth from the Moon

“God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.” – Pope Pius XII

“I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.” – Stephen Hawking

“Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.” – William Burroughs

“Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.” – Socrates

“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!” – Larry Niven, science fiction author

“Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever”- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, father of modern rocketry

“Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster” – Elon Musk