- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Space Quotes
Space means something different at every scale.
These space quotes cover a surprising range — screenwriters complaining about crowded cafe tables, a musician resisting being boxed into one sonic style, and an old joke about the outer-space program's tax-dollar value. For more on the physical world, see our Earth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to risk my life for the mission.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.
- Farther
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020