Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Quotes

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was too rusty to fly, taken out of service. We retreated in '98 back to something that was developed in '56. What? The most impressive spaceship ever, I believe, was a Grumman Lunar Lander.

For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had finally launched an object into space.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

It seems that 'rocket scientist' is a job category that's here for the long haul, like 'mortician.' But all this activity masks an important point: rockets are not a terribly efficient way to lift things into space.

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.

I think I started watching 'Trek' in the mid-'70s when I was in elementary school, and I was just into space. Somewhere along the way, I started realizing there were really interesting ideas in the show.

I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because I really like space. But I didn't go to the army.

I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.

By the time I was 13, I was very interested in rocketry.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

I loved being a test pilot, and so being an astronaut was - was not my end point in, you know, either I achieved success by being an astronaut, or if I don't get picked, I'm not successful. I loved my career as a pilot, and it was a bonus to be selected as an astronaut.

My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

Star Trek made dreaming legitimate.

I thought that NASA didn't take biologists and so nothing would come of it. But I knew I would regret it if I did not apply.

There is hardly a facet of an Indian citizen that has not been touched by ISRO's technology.

If you want more kids to become engineers in space, travellers, and pilots, then you have to expose them to those types of careers.