Spacecraft Quotes:

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

- Buzz Aldrin

source: "The man who fell to earth" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

topic: Responsibility, Firsts, Spacecraft

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

- Buzz Aldrin

topic: Thinking, Persons, Spacecraft

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

topic: Sports, Giving, Endurance, Spacecraft, Winners In Life

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

topic: Believe, Men, Moon, Man In The Moon, Spacecraft

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

- Wernher von Braun

topic: Sarcastic, Work, Science, Paperwork, Space Science

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

- Wernher von Braun

topic: Science, Men, Ties, Space Travel, Spacecraft

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

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Moon, People, Together, Spacecraft, Propulsion

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

topic: Believe, Independent, Men, Spacecraft, Extraterrestrial

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

- Buzz Aldrin

topic: Needs, Spacecraft

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

topic: Thinking, Guy, Cosmic, Spacecraft

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

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

topic: Years, Numbers, Space, Spacecraft, International Space Station

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

topic: Dream, Thinking, Class, Notre Dame, Spacecraft

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

source: "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.

topic: Car, Want, Rockets, Spacecraft

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

topic: Inspiration, Heart, Past, Spacecraft, Cargo

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

topic: Baseball, Glowing, Flames, Spacecraft

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

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

topic: Good Night, Heart, People, Spacecraft, God Bless You

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

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: Reality, Thinking, Space, Amazing Things, Spacecraft

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

- Alan Stern

topic: Moon, Jupiter, Nine, Spacecraft

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

topic: Powerful, Moon, Technology, Spacecraft, Digital Technology

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

topic: Beautiful, Eye, Night, Dreamy, Spacecraft

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

topic: Opportunity, Space, Long, Spacecraft, Spaceflight

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

- Rusty Schweickart

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

topic: Asteroids, Would Be, Earth, Spacecraft

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

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

topic: Moving, Moon, Light, Spacecraft, Vicinity

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

topic: Thinking, People, Drs, Spacecraft, Canned Food

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

topic: Years, Civilization, Orbit, Spacecraft, Artifacts

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

- Jon Spaihts

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Zero, Space, Gravity, Spacecraft, Zero Gravity

I don't like the way the whole thing has developed. And I just hope that we develop our own transportation system, both spacecraft and new boosters, as soon as possible. I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.

- John Glenn

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Hate, Journey, Thinking, Spacecraft

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

- Trevor Paglen

topic: Thinking, Sculpture, Inspired, Spacecraft, Minimalist

Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate today’s historic feat.

- Stephen Hawking

source: FaceBook post by Stephen Hawking from Nov 12, 2014

topic: Beautiful, Real, Agency, Spacecraft, Short Films

The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.

- Yuri Gagarin

topic: Grief, Joy, Cabins, Spacecraft

There are more than 100 first- and second- hand witnesses to the retrieval of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and at least four extraterrestrial bodies from a crash which occurred in July, 1947, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, New Mexico; written and videotaped testimony from several first-hand witnesses who are respected military officers have been obtained.

- Steven M. Greer

topic: Military, July, Hands, Spacecraft

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

- Eileen Collins

topic: Moon, Design, Age, Spacecraft, Shuttle Program

There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric devices.

- Steven M. Greer

source: Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

topic: Military, Car, Police, Spacecraft, Military Personnel

Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions of light-years- a group of aliens so intelligent, so insouciant, so utterly above it all, they feel no need whatsoever to equip their spacecraft with windows so that they can gaze out on all that celestial beauty-but then immediately upon landing, their first impulse is to get in some hick's ass with a flashlight.

- Dennis Miller

topic: Intelligent, Men, Thinking, Hicks, Spacecraft

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

- Rob Lowe

source: Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.107, Macmillan

topic: Jobs, Liars, Lying, Spacecraft, Great Liar

By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space. So we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow and I expect to be around in see it.

- Barack Obama

source: "What's In The Stars For NASA?". "Science Friday", www.npr.org. April 16, 2010.

topic: Future, Believe, Journey, Spacecraft, Long Journey

We have never denied that it is possible, indeed probable, that other forms of life, even intelligent life, exist in the universe. But this is different from the belief that we are now being visited by extraterrestrial beings in spacecraft, that they are abducting people, and the there is a vast government cover-up.

- Paul Kurtz

topic: Intelligent, Government, People, Spacecraft

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.

- Brian Cox

source: Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen (2011). “Wonders of the Universe”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

topic: Dream, Past, Journey, Spacecraft, Back In Time

There are hundreds of credible reports, many with multiple witnesses, of humanoids in association with landed spacecraft.

- Steven M. Greer

source: Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

topic: Association, Ufo, Multiple, Spacecraft, Credible

There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and videotapes have been evaluated and deemed authentic by competent experts in optical physics and related fields.

- Steven M. Greer

source: Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

topic: Night, World, Fields, Spacecraft

Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut." Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell. "I'm the nut!" Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.

- Eoin Colfer

topic: Blue, Nuts, Squids, Spacecraft

Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.

- Buzz Aldrin

topic: Dream, Moon, America, Spacecraft, Predecessors

There are several multiple-witnessed events where humans have been taken on board spacecraft.

- Steven M. Greer

source: Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

topic: Taken, Events, Boards, Spacecraft

CSETI (The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has in the past 18 months succeeded in intentionally establishing contact with extraterrestrial spacecraft, on two occasions at very close range, and with multiple witnesses present.

- Steven M. Greer

source: Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

topic: Past, Two, Months, Spacecraft, Extraterrestrial

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

- Jim Lovell

topic: Flying, Challenges, Aviation, Spacecraft, Carrier

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

- Lewis Thomas

topic: Space, Musical, Would Be, Spacecraft

I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

- Valentina Tereshkova

topic: Men, Space, Comfort, Space Program, Spacecraft

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

- Alan Shepard

topic: Believe, Book, Pages, Spacecraft, Talents And Abilities

The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. Most are not. It's clear from the Opinion Polls and my own experience, that indeed most people accept the notion that SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. The greater the education, the MORE likely to accept this proposition

- Stanton T. Friedman

topic: People, Earth, Opinion, Spacecraft, Opinion Polls

I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Years, Air, Mexico, Spacecraft, Belfast