Heidi Hammel Quotes

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.

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

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.

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 like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations.

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.

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

Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.

America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.

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

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.

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

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

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

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

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

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.

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

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

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 think that the first men to land on Pluto are going to make some very astonishing discoveries. But I am also sure that they will never go there in rockets. They will have to make the immense trip by some more powerful means - like the anti-gravitational drive.

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.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices