Space Quotes Ipsum

And for all the people back on earth, the crew of apollo eight has a message that we would like to send to you. and for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the earth and all the living things it supports. half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. "what do i see?" i replied. a hostile sky. a manuscript i wrote on january 14, 1918... a moment later i found myself think, that can't be a meteor. a society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die. after the apollo 13 recovery, grumman aerospace corporation (designers and builders of the lunar module) sent a spoof invoice a441066 to north american rockwell (designers and builders of the command and service modules) for towing the rest of apollo 13 around the moon and home to earth. all of humanity went to the moon with the apollo missions. all this enlarges the human horizon... aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming, membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. an unknown fault in electrical equipment inside one of the service module's oxygen tanks had produced an explosion during the routine stirring operation, which in turn caused the loss the oxygen in both tanks. and even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero*the temperature of interplanetary space. and eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. and god saw that it was good." and from the crew of apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, and a merry christmas. and i tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. and if the idea is accepted that the world's resources are fixed, then each person is ultimately the enemy of every other person, and each race or nation is the enemy of every other race or nation. and it required... and thanks for putting me on relay, houston. and that within a century after his death the telescope was invented, and that prediction verified, by galileo,*i am not without hope that we may, even here and now, obtain some accurate information concerning that other world which the instinct of mankind has so long predicted. and the earth was without form and void. and the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space. and this is exploration at its greatest. and without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough. and yet it moves. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. anyway, the reply was: apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on earth as life? it is in this that lies the peculiar interest of mars..