Author: Homer Hickam

Quotes

One thing we've learned about space is that the human body starts to fall apart after relatively short exposures to microgravity.

One thing we've learned about space is that the human body starts to fall apart after relatively short exposures to microgravity.

- Homer Hickam

To be a great nation and a great people, you have to do great things.

To be a great nation and a great people, you have to do great things.

- Homer Hickam

I have always found the best way to live is to be optimistic and energetic and willing to work hard for my dreams as well as the dreams of others.

I have always found the best way to live is to be optimistic and energetic and willing to work hard for my dreams as well as the dreams of others.

- Homer Hickam

For a country like ours that needs to stay ahead of the world or go under, we must do great, ambitious things - like going to the moon - to survive.

For a country like ours that needs to stay ahead of the world or go under, we must do great, ambitious things - like going to the moon - to survive.

- Homer Hickam

Persevere with a plan to reach your passion, and life will be good.

Persevere with a plan to reach your passion, and life will be good.

- Homer Hickam

NASA's charter is to give Americans the means to get into the wild, black yonder, beyond even the grasp of the federal government that funded it.

NASA's charter is to give Americans the means to get into the wild, black yonder, beyond even the grasp of the federal government that funded it.

- Homer Hickam

If politicians want to save money, that's fine. They can look for all the wasteful spending they want, but not where the lives of miners are involved.

If politicians want to save money, that's fine. They can look for all the wasteful spending they want, but not where the lives of miners are involved.

- Homer Hickam

I want to make the conquest of the moon the United States' goal for the 21st century and, through that goal, to make us a great and good and happy country for generations to come.

I want to make the conquest of the moon the United States' goal for the 21st century and, through that goal, to make us a great and good and happy country for generations to come.

- Homer Hickam

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