Astronaut

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

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.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

Saya datang untuk mendedikasikan hidup saya untuk membuka ruang bagi orang kebanyakan dan membuat desain untuk pesawat luar angkasa baru yang dapat membawa kami jauh dari rumah. Tapi sejak Apollo berakhir, perjalanan seperti itu hanya ada dalam ingatan kolektif kita.

All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.

Tidak ada yang pernah bertanya siapa orang ketujuh di Bulan. Satu-satunya hal yang mereka tahu adalah siapa yang nomor satu dan siapa yang nomor dua. Adakah yang tahu siapa pria terakhir itu?

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

Impian Amerika saya sendiri adalah untuk melayani negara saya sebaik mungkin dan membuat perbedaan di Amerika - dan di dunia.

You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

I don't go through life verbalizing what I feel.

We should've asked China to be a portion of the space station. We should've worked out ways that we can... just give away the technology that we have that puts things up into space, with cooperation up above the atmosphere that's needed to help each other.