The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bound the human race ever since we first gained consciousness of earth's gravity and all it's analogs in suffering, failure and pain. It was at once a prayer sent heavenward and the answer to that prayer: Bear me away from this awful place.

~ Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon Earth Humanity Rocket Space War Wwi

Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well.

~ Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh Filth Rocket Sex

If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocketship to the mix. If a book has a rocketship in it, the only thing that can turn it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.

~ Debra Doyle

Debra Doyle Alternate History Books Fantasy Genre Holy Grail Horses Rocket Science Fiction Swords Zeppelin

It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

~ Wernher Von Braun

Wernher Von Braun Gravity Heaven Planet Rocket Space

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

~ Wernher Von Braun

Wernher Von Braun Planet Rocket Space

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

~ William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Stars Pride Rocket

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

~ Michael P. Anderson

Michael P. Anderson Flying You Rocket

If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.

~ Drew Houston

Drew Houston Moon You Rocket

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

~ Sally Ride

Sally Ride Science Way Rocket

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

~ Sally Ride

Sally Ride Better Rocket Than

The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a pinch.

~ Henry Spencer

Henry Spencer Escape Rocket Tower

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

~ Kyle Chandler

Kyle Chandler Love Rocket Rocket Science

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

~ John Carmack

John Carmack True Rocket Difficulty

Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States.

~ Charles Duke

Charles Duke Moon Rocket Paranoia