Top 100 Quotes About Space Travel
#2. The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans.
Steven Magee
#3. But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.
John Scalzi
#4. The younger generation of rocket engineers is just beginning. They are of the new generation to which space travel is not going to be a dream of the future but an everyday job with everyday worries in which they will be engaged.
Willy Ley
#5. In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory
horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene
and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#6. I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
Dan Simmons
#7. In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.
Stephen Baxter
#8. It is for this
reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in
time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for
space has no before, after, or now,
Arthur Schopenhauer
#9. Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.
Clement Greenberg
#10. A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.
Buzz Aldrin
#11. If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
Peter Capaldi
#12. Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.
George Lucas
#13. Gravity is why there are suns and planets in the first place. It is practically God.
Mary Roach
#14. What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
Edward M. Lerner
#15. Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in tie and exist in two places at once.
Margaret Atwood
#16. A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
Stephen Hawking
#17. I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'
Sarah Snook
#18. You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before
" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.
Philip K. Dick
#19. Space: the gaping hole between land and other land.
SE Zbasnik
#20. A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen.
J. C. Hutchins
#21. I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus; unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#22. I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.
Kevin J. Anderson
#23. Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.
David Brinkley
#24. I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.
Francoise Gilot
#25. I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.
Sam Heughan
#26. Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.
Willy Ley
#27. I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.
Gerry Anderson
#28. There is a vast world for us, a boundless space beyond and between the fences and the rules. We will travel it freely. We will be okay.
Lauren Oliver
#29. Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing ... It is all rather rot.
Richard Van Der Riet Woolley
#30. If they can work out the kinks, it could revolutionize space travel." " 'Work out the kinks'?" Jared said. "I'm about to use this thing. Kinks are bad.
John Scalzi
#31. Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors ... Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.
Richard Branson
#32. In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.
Yoon Ha Lee
#33. I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.
David Mackay
#34. It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.
Frank Smythe
#35. Consciousness can travel through space or can be present at multiple locations simultaneously. A conscious mind here can create a material change there, and is not limited by time and space or any physical forces.
Ilchi Lee
#36. This visit has compacted the court's quarrels and intrigues, trapped them in the small space within the town's walls. The travelers have become as intimate with each other as cards in a pack: contiguous, but their paper eyes blind.
Hilary Mantel
#37. Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
Stephen Hawking
#38. The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
Christa McAuliffe
#39. Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the basic thing is human character, which is the main thing of most writers.
Philip Jose Farmer
#40. I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity.
Frances Xavier Cabrini
#41. I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.
Peter Diamandis
#42. We would spend hours playing pretend games about missions to deep space, or landing on Pluto. That became our favorite planet to travel to. Pluto was our Tatooine. We
R.J. Palacio
#44. Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
Wilson Greatbatch
#45. If the space travel is at the top of a country's agenda, that country is surely a very developed one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. Travel now by all means - if you have the time. But travel the right way, the way I travel. I am always reading and thinking of the history and geography of a place. I see its people in terms of these, placed in the social framework of time and space.
Oliver Sacks
#47. We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.
Ray Bradbury
#48. We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return.
S.K. Tremayne
#49. Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.
Rebecca Solnit
#50. Jasper!" Casey shouts, startling the young woman. "My cargo is talking to me!
Nathan Reese Maher
#51. In the pages of a good book, you can be anyone, travel anywhere, even transcend time and space. Leave the mundane behind and join me between the pages.
Brandy Golden
#52. You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite me to come with you, and then ask me to stay behind!
Elizabeth Newton
#53. If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the odd sense that I have returned from a journey to a world where nothing quite makes sense.
Jodi Picoult
#54. It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.
Robert A. Heinlein
#55. Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.
Ray Bradbury
#56. One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.
Alfred Bester
#57. At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.
Cillian Murphy
#58. Isn't antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.
Enterprise?
Dan Brown
#59. Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.
Frank Tipler
#60. A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.
Damon Galgut
#61. And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before
and thus was the Empire forged.
Douglas Adams
#62. Like everything else humans built for space travel, it was designed to be efficient, not pretty.
James S.A. Corey
#63. While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them that bridging the distance from one star to the next could take hundreds of thousands of years or more.
Seth Shostak
#64. Travel does this: it creates space that allows thoughts and memories to intrude and assert themselves with impunity. Smells and sights, the quality of light, the honk of a horn
can all act as touchstones when least expected.
Andrew McCarthy
#65. British astronomer royal Richard Woolley, who in 1956 said, "All this talk about space travel is utter bilge, really."10 Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the earth just five years later.
Massimo Pigliucci
#66. The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
John Glenn
#67. Web of time
Veil of space
Carry us to our chosen place
Borne of water
Trialed by Fire
My Sinclair blood claims this power
For the good of all
With harm to none
So as it is spoken
So let it be done.
Maeve Greyson
#68. Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?
Leonardo Da Vinci
#69. The body is a vehicle for the mind, and that vehicle is how you travel through space.
RZA
#70. The most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange ... The spice extends life ... expands consciousness ... gives them the ability to fold space ... that is, travel to any part of the universe without moving.
Frank Herbert
#71. When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
Johannes Kepler
#72. This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel
Walter Dornberger
#73. Come here, cat. You wouldn't want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.
Connie Willis
#74. When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first left Earth will be of huge importance. Star City is a central part of this story and it deserves more recognition.
Helen Sharman
#75. With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.
Ben Parr
#76. On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition
will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.
Seamus Heaney
#77. In space?" I choked out. "We're all in space," Ultragod replied, a broad smile on his face. "Humans travel on Starship Earth." "Why thank you, Super Hippie. I can't breathe in space, you know!
C.T. Phipps
#78. In order to be a better writer, one must always write.
Safa Shaqsy
#79. Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space or underwater, or wherever, if you can't feel, or hear, or see or smell it?
Karen Joy Fowler
#80. We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#81. Eventually everyone will have the opportunity to travel onto space.
Lance Bass
#82. There are often evolutionary parallels on the different worlds because creation tends to be economical.
Julian May
#83. Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design.
Martin Rees
#84. It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.
Ray Bradbury
#85. We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.
Ray Bradbury
#86. You think this is a walk in the park, that it's all beauty pageants and tea parties? Come on girl, wake up! This is survival at its most intense.
RoChe Montoya
#88. I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
Patrick Troughton
#90. When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy, but as the time when the peoples of the world first came to take one another seriously.
Huston Smith
#91. The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.
Douglas Adams
#92. When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Robert A. Heinlein
#93. There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.
Isaac Asimov
#94. If we get it wrong, if we repeat the mistakes of our past, the consequences could be devastating. But if we get it right, the potential benefits to the future of humanity are astonishing.
Stephen L. Petranek
#95. Ideally, the ISS program will just be one more incremental step on an expanding, incredible journal of exploration and understanding, taking us higher and farther.
Ron Garan
#96. As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered, "A loving husband and devoted father," though in reality, he jokes in "Riding Rockets," "I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.
Mary Roach
#98. Mars looks like Vegas without the casinos.
Sam Neill
#99. Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox collection.) But a people collection? That had to be the most bizarre one he'd come across. Not to mention the most unethical.
Elizabeth Newton
#100. As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that ... adventure travel.
Buzz Aldrin
