Gerry Anderson Quotes

I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

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.

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.

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

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

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts.

I believe in the importance of flying in space and the research that we do.

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

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.

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

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.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.