Spaceflight Quotes

• I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Earth

• Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Way
  • Moon
  • Term

• This living system needs to be tested by this spaceflight.

  

  Yang Liwei
  • Living
  • System
  • Tested

• I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Experience
  • Career

• The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Hope

• I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level push on it, is if some other country, perhaps China, were to actually have a landed flight to the moon and brought back our American flag and put it in Tiananmen Square.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Moon
  • Apollo
  • Spaceflight

• We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Cost
  • Solar System
  • Spaceflight

• I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing. When we went to the Moon, it was not only just standing on a new plateau for all mankind. We changed the way everybody in the world thought of themselves, you know. It was a change that went on inside of us. And we’re losing that.

  

  Walter Cunningham
  • Missing
  • Changed
  • Mankind