Christa McAuliffe Quotes

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.

My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

Sometimes people wonder why aeroplanes are so cheap and rockets are so expensive. Even the most superficial comparison shows one obvious difference: aeroplane engines use outside air to burn their fuel, while rockets have to carry their own oxidisers along.

I haven't the slightest wish to get in a rocket and zoom through the stratosphere.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

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

I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because I really like space. But I didn't go to the army.

Weight is crucial and it is very beneficial - if you have spare weight in Formula One that is powerful performance.

Further ahead, I'd like to see tiny spacebots - smaller than your cell phone - travel outside our solar system to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. By keeping the mass of those spacebots low, we could more easily accelerate them.

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.

Everyone gets very excited about the idea of space travel, but... it's not going to be everybody that gets to go.

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.

Obviously I'd like NASA to follow their charter - the exploration of our solar system and beyond. I'd like to see people someday go to Mars.

It's so important to come up with the right specification of cars - they need to be loud, they need to be fast.

Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable.

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.

Most of us at least briefly considered answering, 'An astronaut,' when asked as children what we wanted to be when we grew up.

I think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut.

The truth is, every single rocket launch off of planet Earth is risky.

NASA's charter is to give Americans the means to get into the wild, black yonder, beyond even the grasp of the federal government that funded it.

I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.

What guy didn't want to be an astronaut growing up?

If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.