Space Mission Quotes

#1. I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.

Andy Weir

#2. Then Gerry heard through his helmet radio the two most dreaded words any crew never wanted to hear during a space mission; Oh sh*t

Scott Mackay

#3. This year-in-space mission was a profound challenge for all involved, and it gave me a unique perspective and a lot of time to reflect on what my next step should be on our continued journey to help further our capabilities in space and on Earth.

Scott Kelly

#4. It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

Sally Ride

#5. Remind yourself that there are seasons of life.

Crystal Paine

#6. Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

John Twelve Hawks

#7. He thinks I should go." My chest hurt even considering it. But I couldn't stop thinking about the mission. "He knows it's the only way I'll get back into space.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#8. Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

Samantha Bee

#9. NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like.
Dangerous by Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale

#10. The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#11. I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.

Andy Weir

#12. You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

Jessica Brown Findlay

#13. The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.

William J. Clinton

#14. Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.

George Herbert

#15. The mission of the church must therefore include, at a structural level, the recognition that our present space, time, and matter are all subject not to rejection but to redemption.

N. T. Wright

#16. With the mission to Mars, the whole world wants to get involved. So we actually have 13 different space agencies from around the world working on the global exploration road map.

Ellen Stofan

#17. I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them.

Adrian Tomine

#18. And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.

Umberto Guidoni

#19. if I must encode either the interface or the implementation, I choose the implementation. Calling it ShapeFactoryImp, or even the hideous CShapeFactory, is preferable to encoding the interface.

Robert C. Martin

#20. I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.

Laurel Clark

#21. The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

A.E. Van Vogt

#22. This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the gift of the planet we've been given.

Ron Garan

#23. It was a mission of celebration: never had two Mexican-Americans flown up in space on the same mission, and never did burritos shine so brightly.

Gustavo Arellano

#24. The majority of astronauts have to change their eyeglasses while in space. They bring eyeglasses with them and typically change a few months into the mission.

Scott Kelly

#25. 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

#26. Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

Sally Ride

#27. Walker was the one who had taught Scottie that it's always okay to admit when you don't know something. If you couldn't do this, you would never truly know anything.

Hugh Howey

#28. I believe that the manned space program can engage the public by advancing the space frontier. Every next mission takes you farther out in space than you were before, either technologically or in terms of distance.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#29. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.

Ron Livingston

#30. It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space ... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

Laurel Clark

#31. His heart found something that it doesn't want to live without, he whispered.

Carolyn Brown

#32. I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

Christa McAuliffe

#33. On this flight, my fourth spaceflight, I also became the record holder for total days in space and single longest mission.

Scott Kelly

#34. This was the fundamental problem with rockets - and no one had ever discovered any alternative for deep-space propulsion. It was just as difficult to lose speed as to acquire it, and carrying the necessary propellant for deceleration did not merely double the difficulty of a mission; it squared it.

Arthur C. Clarke

#35. I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.

Richelle Mead

#36. As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Harry Von Zell

#37. While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summaries, and I would scan headlines on Google News when we had an Internet connection, which was about half the time.

Chris Hadfield

#38. Once during the mission I was asked by ground control what I could see. "What do I see?" I replied. "Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, I can see it all. The Earth is so small."

Vitaly Sevastyanov

#39. It looked like Mission Control, if NASA's business was launching rockets full of rapping multiracial actors in colonial garb into space.

Lin-Manuel Miranda