A Quote by Jack Swigert

The American public needs to be alerted to the value of the space program. — © Jack Swigert
The American public needs to be alerted to the value of the space program.
I believe that the manned space program can engage the public by advancing the space frontier. Every next mission takes you farther out in space than you were before, either technologically or in terms of distance.
As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind.
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.
In a progressively privatised city, the defence of public space, the production of new public space, and saving what is public really for the public is very important.
The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.
And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.
The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.
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.
There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.
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.
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