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• For the benefit of all.
  • NASA motto.

• The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.
  • National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, which created NASA, signed by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower (29 July 1958)

• To improve life here. To extend life to there. To find life beyond.
  • The NASA Vision

• To understand and protect our home planet, To explore the universe and search for life, To inspire the next generation of explorers.
  • NASA Mission

• Shaping the Future: Launching New Endeavors to Inspire the Next Generation of Explorers.
  • Motto of NASA's Office of Education

• NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Where else but in Texas would men set up to administer space?
  • James Cameron, in Cameron Country, broadcast on BBC TV, July 12, 1969.

• There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well.
  • Mark E. Kelly in an an interview prior to STS-121