Majel Barrett Quotes

The Space Program is an investment of the nation’s future…. Humans will not be confined to this planet forever.

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.

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?

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

Space is going to be commonplace.

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars. I'm more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there's a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.

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.

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

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

People see space as a place where you go and cooperate.

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

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.

It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

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

The future peopling of Mars is much more than a scientific endeavor. It is a step of historic and spiritual importance for the human race.

We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

Exploration of closer planets will continue. Only after he exhausts all the resources here on earth will man go further ahead, which is when interplanetary travel may take place.

We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.