Annabella Sciorra Quotes

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

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

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

Life on Mars would be awesome! Even single-celled life, although I admit that in my heart of hearts, I want it to be the barge-people of the canals.

I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.

Life outside of Earth is probably going to be really hard to find.

As far as whether there is life there on Mars or whether there was actually ever life there, I don't know. It would be great to find out, though.

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it. I just can't stop reading about it or watching videos about it or listening to TED Talks about it.

Absolutely the most fun thing to do in space and rewarding thing, in many ways, is to look back at planet Earth.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

The total number of people that do a job that has the same description as mine in the entire world is fewer than 10. There's a lot of effort looking for life in space - that's a lot of what NASA does, but they're not necessarily looking for the kind of life that can hold up its side of a conversation.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.