John Glenn Quotes

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

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

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.

So much had already been done in space before that, it had all been documented and there were no real surprises in store for us.

NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

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

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.

Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.

Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.

For the new century, back to the moon, back to the future and this time back to stay. And then a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to Mars.

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.

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.

… conquering space …

When we explore other planets, we learn a lot about our own.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.

Getting a team of scientists on Mars could be transformative.