Space Quotes Ipsum

Astronomy is written for astronomers. he'd dress up in a corduroy jacket, a turtleneck sweater, and something like a mop for a wig... a good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode. a hostile sky. a society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die. after about two minutes, then it's too late really, because if you were to lift off after two minutes after the normal landing, mike collins is going around and around and he's too far ahead for you to catch up to him in a reasonable time, and he's going to have to do some other maneuvers so that you can catch up with him. al is on the surface. all of humanity went to the moon with the apollo missions. all this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one days in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool and laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars. an analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case. an undevout astronomer is mad. and i was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. and it's the saddest moment of my life. 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 we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. 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..

A hostile sky. a satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the twentieth century. a spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. all of a sudden, it's a place where people can die... 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 analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case. and as we know now, and as i pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the space shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying american dollar bills as has ever been devised by man. and deposited in a friend's safe... and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. and the enthusiastic support of its people. and twinkle on the milky way, and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of apollo. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic..

And for all the people back on earth, the crew of apollo eight has a message that we would like to send to you. astronomy is written for astronomers. a chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. a disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. a moment later i found myself think, that can't be a meteor. a new space race has begun, and most americans are not even aware of it. a planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. a tear-drop of green. a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... a-ok full go. after a number of seconds it rose, slowly until in cleared the frame, and then at express-train speed, curving over to the left, and striking the ice and snow, still going at a rapid rate. air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. all attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint. all human exploration's bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul. all the women in my life were nurses, hairdressers, or secretaries, and that's why i thought my father would not support me in being a pilot. and it is this exceptionalism that drives the current scientific thirst for finding life elsewhere, for finding a cosmic mainstream of animation, even civilization, in which the earth can take its place. and it required... and then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless saharas which separate planet from planet, and sun from sun. and this is exploration at its greatest. and when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that mankind played an active and not merely a passive role*that we were the discoverers, not the discovered. another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of apollo..