Anne McClain Quotes

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've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

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.

I actually want to go up into space.

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

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.

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.

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

Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs.

I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.

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

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.

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.