Space Flights Quotes

#1. We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space.

Lincoln Davis

#2. Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid ... Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.

Yuri Gagarin

#3. And from, you know, small ideas, bigger ideas emerge. So we're starting with suborbital space flights and we'll then go into orbital space flights and, you know, maybe one day we'll send people on a one-way voyage into the depths of space as per the science fiction trips.

Richard Branson

#4. Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

C. G. Jung

#5. Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.

Pearl Zhu

#6. History is a continuum, which means that expecting radical changes to occur as we shift from one year to the next is more likely to leave you wanting than not.

Anonymous

#7. It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

William Ellery Channing

#8. Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.

Burt Rutan

#9. No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#10. I grew up a very open and free mind, but also with the flaws of a look on life with too much liberty than people normally have.

Adriano Giannini

#11. Sometimes the things we want the most are bad for us - really bad for us - but sometimes what's bad for us sets us free.

Krystal McLean

#12. Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

Ben Parr

#13. After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.

Marc Garneau

#14. How easily we are made to feel, I thought, and with what little foundation, with no foundation at all. At

Garth Greenwell

#15. True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe