Space Quotes
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Star-gazing, rocket-riding, moon-walking quotations.
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Lovingly compiled by Dave English. On the web since 1997: www.EyesTurnedSkyward.com
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Lovingly compiled by Dave English. On the web since 1997: www.EyesTurnedSkyward.com
RIP John Noble Wilford. The New York Times reporter gave us some of the most magical words about the Space program:
“The moon, long the symbol of the impossible and the inaccessible, was now within man’s reach, the first port of call in this new age of spacefaring.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
“The moon, long the symbol of the impossible and the inaccessible, was now within man’s reach, the first port of call in this new age of spacefaring.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
RIP John Noble Wilford. The New York Times reporter gave us some of the most magical words about the Space program:
“The moon, long the symbol of the impossible and the inaccessible, was now within man’s reach, the first port of call in this new age of spacefaring.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
“The moon, long the symbol of the impossible and the inaccessible, was now within man’s reach, the first port of call in this new age of spacefaring.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
“From the space station's distance mankind is a creature that comes only at night. Mankind is the light of cities and the illuminated filament of roads. By day, it's gone. It hides in plain sight.”
Samantha Harvey, in the beautiful 2023 book Orbital.
Samantha Harvey, in the beautiful 2023 book Orbital.
May 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“From the space station's distance mankind is a creature that comes only at night. Mankind is the light of cities and the illuminated filament of roads. By day, it's gone. It hides in plain sight.”
Samantha Harvey, in the beautiful 2023 book Orbital.
Samantha Harvey, in the beautiful 2023 book Orbital.
#rocket #launch #positiveattitude
“We’re going to pick ourselves up and keep going.”
Jeff Bezos, before calling off the 320-foot New Glenn rocket debut launch in the final minutes. 12 Janurary 2025.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
“We’re going to pick ourselves up and keep going.”
Jeff Bezos, before calling off the 320-foot New Glenn rocket debut launch in the final minutes. 12 Janurary 2025.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Bezos' Blue Origin calls off debut launch of massive rocket in final minutes of countdown
Blue Origin has called off the debut launch of its massive new rocket because of technical trouble
www.latimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#rocket #launch #positiveattitude
“We’re going to pick ourselves up and keep going.”
Jeff Bezos, before calling off the 320-foot New Glenn rocket debut launch in the final minutes. 12 Janurary 2025.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
“We’re going to pick ourselves up and keep going.”
Jeff Bezos, before calling off the 320-foot New Glenn rocket debut launch in the final minutes. 12 Janurary 2025.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Blue Origin VP Jarrett Jones: “This is our first flight and we’ve prepared rigorously for it. But no amount of ground testing or mission simulations are a replacement for flying this rocket. It’s time to fly. No matter what happens, we’ll learn, refine, and apply that knowledge to our next launch.”
January 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Blue Origin VP Jarrett Jones: “This is our first flight and we’ve prepared rigorously for it. But no amount of ground testing or mission simulations are a replacement for flying this rocket. It’s time to fly. No matter what happens, we’ll learn, refine, and apply that knowledge to our next launch.”
“We will inspire children, yours and mine, to look up and dream of what is possible. Americans will walk on the Moon and Mars and in doing so, we will make life better here on Earth.”
Jared Issaacman, announcing selection as next NASA administrator. 4 Dec 2024.
www.adastraspace.com/p/who-is-jar...
Jared Issaacman, announcing selection as next NASA administrator. 4 Dec 2024.
www.adastraspace.com/p/who-is-jar...
Billionaire Jared Isaacman: The next NASA administrator
Who is Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick for the next NASA administrator? He's a billionaire with close ties to SpaceX.
www.adastraspace.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:24 PM
“We will inspire children, yours and mine, to look up and dream of what is possible. Americans will walk on the Moon and Mars and in doing so, we will make life better here on Earth.”
Jared Issaacman, announcing selection as next NASA administrator. 4 Dec 2024.
www.adastraspace.com/p/who-is-jar...
Jared Issaacman, announcing selection as next NASA administrator. 4 Dec 2024.
www.adastraspace.com/p/who-is-jar...
#womenfly
Emily Calandrelli on the beauty of sending more women into space, we “get to describe it in a way that moms can understand, that women can understand.”
“It was the same feeling I got when my kids were born where I’m like, seeing it for the first time.”
www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/s...
Emily Calandrelli on the beauty of sending more women into space, we “get to describe it in a way that moms can understand, that women can understand.”
“It was the same feeling I got when my kids were born where I’m like, seeing it for the first time.”
www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/s...
Emily Calandrelli, 100th woman in space, refuses to bow to “small men on the internet” | CNN
Gazing out the window of a rocket at Earth’s glistening blue perimeter, Emily Calandrelli’s mind was likely far from away from the trolls that inhabit the internet on this planet.
www.cnn.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:20 PM
#womenfly
Emily Calandrelli on the beauty of sending more women into space, we “get to describe it in a way that moms can understand, that women can understand.”
“It was the same feeling I got when my kids were born where I’m like, seeing it for the first time.”
www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/s...
Emily Calandrelli on the beauty of sending more women into space, we “get to describe it in a way that moms can understand, that women can understand.”
“It was the same feeling I got when my kids were born where I’m like, seeing it for the first time.”
www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/s...
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The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records included aboard the Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.
They contain sounds and images of Earth, intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life forms that may find them.
Do you think there's a chance?
They contain sounds and images of Earth, intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life forms that may find them.
Do you think there's a chance?
November 17, 2024 at 3:37 PM
The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records included aboard the Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.
They contain sounds and images of Earth, intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life forms that may find them.
Do you think there's a chance?
They contain sounds and images of Earth, intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life forms that may find them.
Do you think there's a chance?
“… because it ought to be impossible for a heavy wingless body to be gliding this freely and smoothly and yet here it is and it seems that you are finally doing the thing for which your being was born. It is hard to believe.”
'Nell' in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
'Nell' in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Circling the Planet, Looking for God
Set on the International Space Station, Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” reveals how small and how large our world really is.
www.newyorker.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:52 PM
“… because it ought to be impossible for a heavy wingless body to be gliding this freely and smoothly and yet here it is and it seems that you are finally doing the thing for which your being was born. It is hard to believe.”
'Nell' in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
'Nell' in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“If you’re going to go to the Moon, sooner or later you’ve got to go to the Moon.”
Flight Director Glynn Linney, summing up the rationale for the Apollo 8 ‘go’ decision, NASA meetings, 1968. Quoted in the 2019 book Shoot for the Moon.
Flight Director Glynn Linney, summing up the rationale for the Apollo 8 ‘go’ decision, NASA meetings, 1968. Quoted in the 2019 book Shoot for the Moon.
November 4, 2024 at 12:52 AM
“If you’re going to go to the Moon, sooner or later you’ve got to go to the Moon.”
Flight Director Glynn Linney, summing up the rationale for the Apollo 8 ‘go’ decision, NASA meetings, 1968. Quoted in the 2019 book Shoot for the Moon.
Flight Director Glynn Linney, summing up the rationale for the Apollo 8 ‘go’ decision, NASA meetings, 1968. Quoted in the 2019 book Shoot for the Moon.
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Carl Sagan when asked, "What do you see when you look at the Pale Blue Dot"?
October 18, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Carl Sagan when asked, "What do you see when you look at the Pale Blue Dot"?
“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”
~ John Muir, Spring 1879.
~ John Muir, Spring 1879.
September 23, 2020 at 11:20 AM
“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”
~ John Muir, Spring 1879.
~ John Muir, Spring 1879.
"This enigmatic smell reproduced from the descriptions of various astronauts evokes scents that we know like gunpowder and chimney ash, but that doesn't mean that we wouldn't find it on the moon”
Michael Moisseeff, recreating the smell of the Moon.
Michael Moisseeff, recreating the smell of the Moon.
August 13, 2020 at 2:56 PM
"This enigmatic smell reproduced from the descriptions of various astronauts evokes scents that we know like gunpowder and chimney ash, but that doesn't mean that we wouldn't find it on the moon”
Michael Moisseeff, recreating the smell of the Moon.
Michael Moisseeff, recreating the smell of the Moon.
#testpilot #spaceflight
“It came alive … It doesn't sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all that all the puffs that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise.”
Bob Behnkhen, #SpaceX Dragon.
“It came alive … It doesn't sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all that all the puffs that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise.”
Bob Behnkhen, #SpaceX Dragon.
August 5, 2020 at 3:03 AM
#testpilot #spaceflight
“It came alive … It doesn't sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all that all the puffs that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise.”
Bob Behnkhen, #SpaceX Dragon.
“It came alive … It doesn't sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all that all the puffs that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise.”
Bob Behnkhen, #SpaceX Dragon.
“Oh, I loved it, punching a hole in the sky, right? Getting off the cosmic shore of our Earth, wading out there in the cosmic ocean. Every time, it gets me.”
~ Thomas Zurbuchen, #NASA, on today's launch of “humanity’s first round trip to another planet.”
~ Thomas Zurbuchen, #NASA, on today's launch of “humanity’s first round trip to another planet.”
July 30, 2020 at 3:20 PM
“Oh, I loved it, punching a hole in the sky, right? Getting off the cosmic shore of our Earth, wading out there in the cosmic ocean. Every time, it gets me.”
~ Thomas Zurbuchen, #NASA, on today's launch of “humanity’s first round trip to another planet.”
~ Thomas Zurbuchen, #NASA, on today's launch of “humanity’s first round trip to another planet.”
“Because [space] is a hostile environment, it is never going to be totally safe. There’s always going to be some judgment call about what level of risk, relative to the benefit, the decision makers are willing to accept.”
~ Patricia Sanders, #NASA
~ Patricia Sanders, #NASA
May 25, 2020 at 12:07 PM
“Because [space] is a hostile environment, it is never going to be totally safe. There’s always going to be some judgment call about what level of risk, relative to the benefit, the decision makers are willing to accept.”
~ Patricia Sanders, #NASA
~ Patricia Sanders, #NASA
#spacequotes #space #timetravel
“If your toilet breaks and you’re in space, you can’t run outside and use the tree or your neighbor’s toilet.”
~ @StationCDRKelly, with great thoughts on living in isolation on the ISS, and now with coronavirus.
“If your toilet breaks and you’re in space, you can’t run outside and use the tree or your neighbor’s toilet.”
~ @StationCDRKelly, with great thoughts on living in isolation on the ISS, and now with coronavirus.
May 16, 2020 at 12:32 PM
#spacequotes #space #timetravel
“If your toilet breaks and you’re in space, you can’t run outside and use the tree or your neighbor’s toilet.”
~ @StationCDRKelly, with great thoughts on living in isolation on the ISS, and now with coronavirus.
“If your toilet breaks and you’re in space, you can’t run outside and use the tree or your neighbor’s toilet.”
~ @StationCDRKelly, with great thoughts on living in isolation on the ISS, and now with coronavirus.
#space #SpaceForce #astroquotes
“Maybe your purpose on this planet isn’t on this planet.”
US Space Force, first recruitment video. 6 May 2020.
“Maybe your purpose on this planet isn’t on this planet.”
US Space Force, first recruitment video. 6 May 2020.
May 7, 2020 at 4:49 PM
#space #SpaceForce #astroquotes
“Maybe your purpose on this planet isn’t on this planet.”
US Space Force, first recruitment video. 6 May 2020.
“Maybe your purpose on this planet isn’t on this planet.”
US Space Force, first recruitment video. 6 May 2020.
“We, this people, on a small and lonely planet.”
~ Maya Angelou begins A Brave and Startling Truth, her cosmic wakeup call to humanity, which flew into space aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft. This and much more:
~ Maya Angelou begins A Brave and Startling Truth, her cosmic wakeup call to humanity, which flew into space aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft. This and much more:
April 26, 2020 at 3:34 PM
“We, this people, on a small and lonely planet.”
~ Maya Angelou begins A Brave and Startling Truth, her cosmic wakeup call to humanity, which flew into space aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft. This and much more:
~ Maya Angelou begins A Brave and Startling Truth, her cosmic wakeup call to humanity, which flew into space aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft. This and much more:
“Please keep your distance.”
~ Ground crew member could be heard telling another, in footage released by Russia’s space agency. 17 April 2020.
~ Ground crew member could be heard telling another, in footage released by Russia’s space agency. 17 April 2020.
April 18, 2020 at 12:17 PM
“Please keep your distance.”
~ Ground crew member could be heard telling another, in footage released by Russia’s space agency. 17 April 2020.
~ Ground crew member could be heard telling another, in footage released by Russia’s space agency. 17 April 2020.
“Lying on my ass and locking the door.”
@TheRealBuzz, 90, on what he's doing to protect himself from the coronavirus virus. He was famously quarantined for three weeks after #Apollo11 to save the world from space bugs.
@TheRealBuzz, 90, on what he's doing to protect himself from the coronavirus virus. He was famously quarantined for three weeks after #Apollo11 to save the world from space bugs.
March 19, 2020 at 6:34 PM
“Lying on my ass and locking the door.”
@TheRealBuzz, 90, on what he's doing to protect himself from the coronavirus virus. He was famously quarantined for three weeks after #Apollo11 to save the world from space bugs.
@TheRealBuzz, 90, on what he's doing to protect himself from the coronavirus virus. He was famously quarantined for three weeks after #Apollo11 to save the world from space bugs.
”Say to me there’s too much danger
Say to me we could be lost.
Then I say I am no stranger
To the danger, that’s the cost.”
RIP Al Worden, Apollo 15.
Say to me we could be lost.
Then I say I am no stranger
To the danger, that’s the cost.”
RIP Al Worden, Apollo 15.
March 19, 2020 at 5:44 PM
”Say to me there’s too much danger
Say to me we could be lost.
Then I say I am no stranger
To the danger, that’s the cost.”
RIP Al Worden, Apollo 15.
Say to me we could be lost.
Then I say I am no stranger
To the danger, that’s the cost.”
RIP Al Worden, Apollo 15.