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Space Program Quotes

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.
- Corbin Bernsen

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

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
- Wernher Von Braun

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
- David R Brower

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.
- Angela Cartwright

Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.
- Leroy Chiao

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
- Neil Degrasse Tyson

(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

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
- Randy Forbes

As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
- Randy Forbes

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.
- Linda M Godwin

For them not to have fucked then and there would have required such a reversal of the laws of nature as to cause Newton to spin in his coffin and NASA to discontinue the space program.
- Tom Robbins

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.
- Mark Kelly

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
- Mark Kelly

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
- Jack Kilby

If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
- Walter Lang

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.
- Christa Mcauliffe

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
- Christa Mcauliffe

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!
- Larry Niven

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

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.
- John L Phillips

The homeless are still homeless and the poor are still poor but yet we still find billions and billions of dollars to fund senseless Wars & Space Programs. Sadly...such is the way of theAsinine politician!
- Timothy Pina

You've got to stop and ask yourself once in a while...why some asinine politicians would quicker cut out social security than the space program...Go figure.
- Timothy Pina

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

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
- Sally Ride

I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.
- Dana Rohrabacher

Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.
- Burt Rutan

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.
- John Sununu

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