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Space Quotes
"We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space."
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"In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses."
4
"I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission."
4
"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it."
4
"My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space."
4
"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space."
4
"We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls."
4
"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
4
"Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue."
4
"I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do."
4
"The future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species."
4
"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."
4
"If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation."
4
"You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet."
4
"I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head."
4
"The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff."
4
"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."
4
"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."
4
"Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going."
4
"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."
3
"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."
3
"A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in."
3
"Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer."
3
"Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground."
3
"Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air."
3
"If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens."
3
"I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it."
3
"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
3
"I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle."
3
"It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me."
3
"It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space."
3
"I think we should explore the possibility of life on Mars, and make humanity a multi-planetary species."
3
"Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space."
3
"It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad."
2
"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."
2
"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen."
2
"As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform."
2
"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
2
"There was a space program before there was integrated circuits."
2
"I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?"
2
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
2
"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
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