Space Program Quotes - Page 2

• It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

  David R. Brower

  Islands, Space, Long

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• But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

  Sally Ride

  School, Space, Juniors

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• Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sight, Space, Dinosaurs

  "'Space Chronicles': Why Exploring Space Still Matters". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. February 27, 2012.

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• The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, Space, Grandparent

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• (Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Educational, Technology, Issues

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• 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?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Air, Knowing, Space

  "Buzz Aldrin Reflects on Moon Landing". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2009.

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• If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.

  Gus Grissom

  Country, Business, Acceptance

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• The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Education, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "First on the Moon". Book by Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, 1970.

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• I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo [space program] in 1961.

  Neil Armstrong

  Space, Apollo, Program

  "Neil Armstrong opens up for biography", www.today.com. December 5, 2005.

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• A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

  Lewis Black

  Running, Dad, Father

  "Lewis Black: Black on Broadway". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes."

  Robert Wise

  Reflection, Space, Feelings

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• I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made . . .This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Country, Simple

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• Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.

  Louise Erdrich

  Baby, Strong, Space

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• I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

  Bill Nye

  Airplane, Kids, Moon

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• The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Military, Thinking, Space

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Maybe the purpose of the space program [NASA] is to prepare the world for Big Brother - the New World Order.

  Kent Hovind

  Brother, Order, Space

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• A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Struggle, Space, President

  "President Obama’s JFK Moment" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

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• My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Space, Transition

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• The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.

  John Noble Wilford

  Maturity, Roots, Space

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• 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

  Distance, Believe, Space

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My interest in the space program has a certain purity to it because I recognize the romance of it but I was never seduced by it. That allowed me to view it through a more purely scientific lens. My interest in space while in school came about through my scientific activities.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  School, Views, Space

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses of nuclear medicine, an isotope of plutonium is a major energy source in the space program, and the element americium is critical to the smoke detectors in every house in the country.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  Country, Space, Discovery

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• There was an Irish space program to go to the sun. They went at night so they didn't get burnt.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.

  Simon Sinek

  Wall, Book, Kids

  "Look On The Bright Side" by Simon Sinek, www.askmen.com.

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• Who creates a thing is not as important as what the thing is. Who created baseball? Who created basketball? Who created the space program? Who created - we could go on and on. We could argue about who created something. We all are participants in it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Basketball, Baseball, Space

  Source: www.pbs.org

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