Space Quotes Ipsum

. A hostile sky. a man is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft... 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. about every 1500 million years this ball of radio waves will double in diameter; and it will go on expanding in geometrical progression for ever. across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of homer is turned upon our age. all all i see multiplied as high as i can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. an outer-space raspberry to a decade of american pretensions that the american way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our national superiority. an undevout astronomer is mad. and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. and so it was in august of '69 before the fight when i made this bet: that i would say something that they would know that the united states government wasn't big brother telling us what to say. and thanks for putting me on relay, houston. 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 we have been that way for thousands of years. 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 you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space..

A disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. a lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. a moment later i found myself think, that can't be a meteor. a satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the twentieth century. amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand! an outer-space raspberry to a decade of american pretensions that the american way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our national superiority. and the one thing i know about nature is it hates to waste anything. and we have been that way for thousands of years. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. armstong was an amazing test pilot and aerospace engineer, but he had been awake for 24 hours at the time of the moonwalk. armstrong spoke it at a rate of 35 milliseconds*ten times too fast for it to be audible." neil armstrong issued a statement saying:.

"what do i see?" i replied. a mind of no mean order would seem to have presided over the system we see*a mind certainly of considerably more comprehensiveness than that which presides over the various department of our own public works. a satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the twentieth century. 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. al is on the surface. 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. all this enlarges the human horizon... and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. 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 if we are interested in mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future. and it's the saddest moment of my life. and next, for the new century, back to the moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay. 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 twinkle on the milky way, and we are mistreating it. and without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough. another explorer with a famous first*edmund hillary, first to climb mount everest*said it would have been, "better if he had said something natural like, 'jesus, here we are!'" the july 1969 edition of esquire magazine even had as its cover story famous writers discussing what the first words should be. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. anyway, the reply was: arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service..