Helen Sharman Quotes

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

It's so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.

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

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

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.

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

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.

It is rash to set limits to the progress of science. A man who had maintained at Queen Victoria’s Jubilee that within fifty years one would fly the Atlantic in a matter of hours would have risked being certified and locked up; yet we have seen this happen, and in the circumstances I am not prepared to rule out with any confidence the possibility one day of journeys through space in vessels carrying supplies of food and oxygen to the moon and the nearer planets.

This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth.

We always had National Geographic and Astronomy magazines and Popular Mechanics lying around the house. I got interested in exploration and different parts of the world and different parts of the universe just from seeing those things around the house and the different discussions we had as a family.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

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

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.

I'm very interested in science.

Space is going to be commonplace.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.