John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
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There's no question that if we stay on planet Earth and never leave, that eventually we'll be wiped out.
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Getting a team of scientists on Mars could be transformative.
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As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.
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Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe.
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To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile.
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The only reason Hubble works is because we have a space shuttle.
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There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.
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The truth is, every single rocket launch off of planet Earth is risky.
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I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.
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I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.
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I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.
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If I could live in space, I would definitely do that.
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Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question... because of the investments we're making in space technology.
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Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.
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The first thing to know about space food - it is the ambiance; it is the environment. It is not the food.
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I'm an incurable romantic. But I'm not an adrenaline junkie.
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I got lucky and got assigned to Hubble.
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Regardless of what dreams you have, work very hard, play very hard, and have fun.
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At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.
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When I grew up as a kid, we didn't know there were any other planets outside of our own solar system. It was widely speculated that planet formation was an incredibly rare event and that it's possible that other planets just don't exist in our galaxy, and it's just this special situation where we happen to have planets around our sun.
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A deep ocean under the icy crust of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth.
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One of the things that happens in space is that there is a fluid shift. You get a lot of extra pressure, and it fills your sinuses, and the horseradish is a miracle worker for cleaning that out.
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Asteroid detection, tracking, and defense of our planet is something that NASA, its interagency partners, and the global community take very seriously.
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Sometimes astronauts feel a little ill or get minor scrapes. I trained as a crew medical officer to do basic treatment.