Top 25 Aerospace Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Aerospace Quotes from famous people such as Buzz Aldrin, Gwynne Shotwell, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Victor J. Glover, Jeff Bezos, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
Buzz Aldrin
After I finished my master’s degree, I moved to a company called Aerospace Corporation, a big think tank for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office.
Gwynne Shotwell
I’ve spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I’m an academic. Being an academic means I don’t wield power over person, place or thing. I don’t command armies; I don’t lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The thing that really draws me and excited me about the future is the opportunity to be a part of kindling America’s passion for aerospace and space.
Victor J. Glover
In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.
Jeff Bezos
UTC Aerospace Systems has a couple of million dollars of content on every single aircraft that gets delivered. That’s the chutes, the electric system, rotors, etc.
Louis R. Chenevert
I’m an engineer. I studied physics and engineering. In fact, in 1978 I started working as an aerospace engineer with General Dynamics. I used to test cruise missiles, space systems, I worked on the first generation of cruise missile.
Edwin Moses
I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because I really like space. But I didn’t go to the army.
Nuseir Yassin
It was like I need something else in my life, and that’s when I kind of went back to my childhood interest in aviation and aerospace, and I just started flying.
Jared Isaacman
People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is unique in this aspect because a thousandths-of-an-inch mistake can cause spectacular failures.
Mae Jemison
I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
Kalpana Chawla
I firmly believe a rising tide lifts all boats. I think having Airbus only grows and brings more attention to Alabama’s entire aerospace and aviation industry. Listen, my goal is to bring good-paying jobs to our state and our region, regardless of what the company may be.
Bradley Byrne
I own a small aerospace company that does some business with the U.S. government.
Robert Zubrin
I felt very comfortable moving from aerospace to automobiles.
Alan Mulally
I’m always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.
Peter Cullen
Congress often covers the exposed crotch of our human spaceflight program with the figleaf of science when it’s an obvious lie to justify the pumping of billions of dollars into the belly of an ever-voracious aerospace industrial complex. And yes, of course space is dangerous.
Rick Tumlinson
Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.
Louis R. Chenevert
We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain’s probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we’ve done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.
Vince Cable
I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.
Gwynne Shotwell
One of the good things that’s happening in manufacturing in Mexico is that the old maquiladora that was relegated to just assembling things has changed in different sectors. One of these sectors is the aerospace industry and in how we attract workers that have been in technical school.
Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal
Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.
Roger Wicker
We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
Baba Kalyani
UTC is very well positioned to take advantage of 2 large megatrends: urbanization and the fast-growing commercial aerospace market.
Louis R. Chenevert
Well, ‘aerospace’ was really not a name in my young life. Flying airplanes was. And I got my first try at flying – just pure flying – by flying my ‘Superman’ cape off my daddy’s barn when I was about 5 years old.
Wally Funk
My brother’s an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, ‘Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job… What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?’
Brent Sexton