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I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us. -- Robert Crippen
Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station. -- Martin Rees
The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. -- Stephen Hawking
There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing. -- Andy Weir
Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots. -- Henry Spencer
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
I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century. -- Valentina Tereshkova
In 1940, Germany toppled France in 20 days, and the panzerdivizion symbolized war's shift from drawn-out conflicts using massive fortifications to rapid-fire engagements built around manned, motorized armor. -- Charles Duhigg
I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon. -- Buzz Aldrin
Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one. -- David Mackay
In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich. -- David Joseph Schwartz
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Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances. -- Andy Weir
In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too. -- Burt Rutan
I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door. -- David Mackay
I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us. -- David Weber
It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme. -- Martin Rees
The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions. -- Martin Rees
I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way. -- Jimmy Carr
One of the things I'm proudest of is, on my record 'That Was the Year that Was' in 1965, I made a joke about spending $20 billion sending some clown to the moon. I was against the manned space program then, and I'm even more against it now, that whole waste of money. -- Tom Lehrer
We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration. -- Nathan Myhrvold
It's very sad that there's going to be a hiatus in manned space flight from the U.S. The Shuttle was a fantastic, hugely complex vehicle. It was inevitable it would come to an end, but this is the opportunity for the commercial world to get involved. As the Shuttle era ends, another window of opportunity opens. -- David Mackay
To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution. -- Burt Rutan
Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access. -- Burt Rutan
These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both. -- Benjamin W. Chidlaw
As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy. -- Frederick Forsyth
By the way, Japan is also known to be actively engaged in manned space flights as part of the International Space Station. -- Vladimir Putin
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
I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids. -- Rick Riordan
Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine. -- David Brinkley
I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century -- Valentina Tereshkova
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. -- George W. Bush
By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets. -- Wernher von Braun

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