Nasa Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old nasa quotes, nasa sayings, and nasa proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. John F. Kennedy
The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends. Wernher von Braun
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. Neil Armstrong
A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again. Burt Rutan
I did not come to NASA to make history. Sally Ride
I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations. Neil deGrasse Tyson
You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect. Max Lucado
Space in general gave us GPS. That's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space. Neil deGrasse Tyson
NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years. Robert Ballard
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA. James Lovelock
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth. Neil Armstrong
Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not support them, then so be it. NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be frank, honest, and informative. Richard P. Feynman
It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time. John Seely Brown
The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. Gus Grissom
A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program. William Shatner
I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning hin safely to the earth. John F. Kennedy
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. Wernher von Braun
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see. Penn Jillette