Demetri Martin Quotes

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

I always knew I'd go to space.

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Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

So you're sayin that it's easy to send somat up to space, but you don't believe there's a little banana machine?

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

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

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment.

I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.

Space is going to be commonplace.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.