Spacecrafts Quotes

We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.

The 'Star Wars' films are known for their exotic aliens, sophisticated robots, sleek technology, and planet-sized battle stations.

When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'

At the time that George Lucas made the first 'Star Wars,' space was always presented as pristine. And he wanted to show that they may be fabulous vehicles, but they've been driven some miles. And, without anyone thinking about it or thinking that was going to help make it a pop hit, everybody believed in that world, because it looked inhabited.

Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

I think the more people that can go up to space and look back is great, but it's not just this overview and look back effect. There's also a lot of concrete gains from getting more people up in space.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

In the late '60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space Race.

The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.

We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

I'm kind of a bit of a space nerd. I like all of that kind of stuff.

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

It's really kind of a challenge to keep coordinated with the two station crews that we'll be interacting with. And of course one of them launched quite some time before our mission.

We're going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system's attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt.

I've never actually seen a Star Trek, but I have seen an Alien movie.

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

India is proud of the achievements of ISRO.

I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.

I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're going to go berserk. We have to have more space.