Debra Fischer Quotes

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

Obviously I'd like NASA to follow their charter - the exploration of our solar system and beyond. I'd like to see people someday go to Mars.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.

Unless you have manned [space] travel, you don't stir the imagination of people.

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

I would love to set foot on another planet - lunar or Mars or somewhere.

We're not up here visiting space, we're up here living in space.

Eventually we're going to go to Mars, and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket.

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

I actually want to go up into space.