W. D. Richter Quotes

Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.

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

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

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.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

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

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

When we meet people who are astronauts or deal in astronomy, it's always really fascinating.

Up in space we don't have a huge wardrobe.